Android webview loads too slowly

Question

I run Ecommerce website and have tested visitor`s page load speed using GA. (Ga has changed it to measure the speed of all users.)

But Unusually, Page loading is slow on Android devices.

Is there anything I can fix on the server side? I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 + Nginx + php7 + MariaDB .

Thank you.

Also what are the network conditions? Are you comparing, for example, against an iOS device on the exact same WiFi network? — Michael Dodd, Oct 24 '17 at 10:56

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 24 '17 at 11:01

Well, sure, you might want to change your website and make it as small as you can to let Android load it faster, but it's a common known thing:

The Android WebView is not that fast.

You can actually see this issue on several threads on SO, and my suggestion is to change your WebView code like they do here:

Another way of increasing performance is to let Google Chrome handle the website for you using Chrome Custom Tabs.

Which can be embedded in your app, without actually intenting a seperate browser app.

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