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How to Add Image Optimization to Magento 2

Jul 24th, 2018

Whether you’re a massive online retailer or a small mom and pop business, optimizing your image content for eCommerce is one of the easiest ways you can improve your Magento 2 web performance. Here I will outline simple steps to make your images perfectly compressed and optimized across any device. This will improve UX, SEO, and load times—which have been proven to increase eCommerce sales and conversions.

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Great Customer Support Empowers Customer Success

Jul 19th, 2018

Peter Drucker once said, “Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the customer gets out of it.” Here at ScientiaMobile, we believe that too. Our dedicated Customer Support team truly cares about your business outcomes, and wants to help you solve your biggest problems.

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Disrupting the Traditional CDN Pricing Model With ImageEngine’s Smart Bytes

May 22nd, 2018

Recently, we were talking to an industry analyst who voiced an opinion that Content Delivery Networks (CDN) are commodities. CDNs all take the same approach to getting your content there faster.

We agree. We need a new, smarter approach! Something that takes the CDN world, improves it, and stands it on its head. We have built ImageEngine to dramatically improve performance, deliver images via a new, smarter network, and disrupt the traditional CDN business approach along the way.

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ImageEngine Introduces JP2, JPEG2000 for Apple Devices

May 22nd, 2018

ScientiaMobile has launched full support for JPEG2000. This means that browsers supporting JPEG2000 – typically Safari browsers – will receive smaller size image files with better image quality. According to our tests, ImageEngine customers can expect to save 57% of the payload of the original image by delivering JPEG2000 images to Safari users.

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What is Different about ImageEngine? Proactive Device Detection

Apr 30th, 2018

Other CDNs and Image Management platforms claim to have image acceleration solutions. But when you ask the right questions and look under the hood, they do not have the key ingredient to deliver a truly different CDN service. That key ingredient is proactive device detection. Device detection enables ScientiaMobile to deliver a Smart Bytes image payload.

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WebRTC Support in Browsers is Growing

Apr 27th, 2018

WebRTC is a project that provides web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC) via simple application programming interfaces (APIs). Many browsers have added versions that support WebRTC to allows audio and video communication to work inside the web page.

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Legacy Package Deprecation for WURFL OnSite API for Java

Apr 25th, 2018

Our team has been working hard on the upcoming release of the WURFL OnSite API for Java (v1.9.4.0), which will be the last release to contain support for the legacy package name (net.sourceforge.wurfl) and the legacy release package. There’s a lot of information below about the package name and why we’re doing it, but the most important thing to know is that current customers need to update to the new package name (com.scientiamobile) to avoid any disruptions to their project(s).

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The Importance of Knowing Physical Device Dimensions

Apr 24th, 2018

Some of our specific WURFL device detection capabilities identify physical elements of devices (smartphones, tablets, etc.). With this information our customers can pinpoint and target ads to newer devices, or older devices, depending on their desired demographic.

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Changes in Brazilian Smartphone Usage: 2015 Q1 vs. 2018 Q1 Comparison

Apr 24th, 2018

Brazil is a country full of change and increasing global impact, which is why we decided to focus on Brazil for our 2018 Q1 Mobile Overview Report (MOVR). We took a look a the top 10 smartphones and the top manufacturers, then and now, to see what trends we could find over the past three years.

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More Online Shopping Begins and Ends with Mobile

Apr 10th, 2018

According to the recent Monetate quarterly report, the most important device for online shipping is the smartphone. The study analyzed more than 2 billion eCommerce session in Q4 2017, specifically the recognizable consumers on multiple devices.

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