What load time is currently expected for our mobile apps ?
On my iPhone 14 pro, my app takes on average 8 seconds to load. An 8-second load time is significantly above the industry standard, and risks high user drop off rate.
For comparison, on the same phone, Airbnb loads in 2.5 seconds, booking.com loads in 1.5 seconds !
Now, even worse, on my Xiaomi Redmi A2, my app always take over a minute to load, and often times, it even breaks Android, I get the error “interface has stopped working” and I need to force quit the app.
I don’t see myself releasing my app to my users with these load times
For reference, my mobile app is currently published in the stores and it is a Massive SPA wrapped with buildnatively, it loads in 2 seconds on my iPhone, 20 seconds on my Xiaomi, 3x faster
I just got my native app into the app store. I downloaded on 6 different devices (all iphones) and the first load, on first open, was indeed long. I timed it on 4 of the devices and all were between 11 and 30 seconds to get past the splash screen,
The oldest device took the longest (iPhone 12?)
however, all loads after the first one were much faster. 3 seconds to 6 seconds.
I could live with our iOS speed, but our apps’s Android, OMG, it takes a solid 30-40 sec on the splash screen before going to index view.
I hope and pray this is resolved before June 10th launch
Is this load speed a new problem? I can’t see that it has come up before. In which case perhaps it’s a temporary bug that needs to be fixed? I’m about to publish my app and this does sound like a dealbreaker if it can’t be fixed, and also very embarrassing for the launch in a couple of weeks
