An energy efficiency of mobile web applications

The purpose of this article is to study and create a comparative characterization of the power consumption of three asynchronous HTTP-based methods in mobile devices. All experiments focus on HTTPbased models, which allow the web server to send data to the client browser via the HTTP protocol: sockets, long polling and normal polling. The paper analyzes the results to gain a better understanding of the effect of methods and different browsers on the power consumption of asynchronous communication, over the HTTP protocol. With the results of the survey, mobile web developers should be able to reduce the power consumption of mobile web applications by simply choosing the best asynchronous method and/or mobile browser, which will improve the performance when using the HTTP protocol, in terms of power consumption.