The State of JAMStack in Africa
Christian Nwamba
@codebeast
MTN
They own ~40% if the mobile market share in Nigeria
Src: http://bit.ly/2RPHqva
Majority of mobile data in Nigeria is slow 3G
Take a look at this phone for one second - Tecno F2
It's a smart phone
- Andoird OS
- Has a rear and front camera
- Snapchat
- CHROME :)
Compare with an iPhone 7
- 3G and 4G Enabled
- 3G Only Enabled
- 2.34 GHz CPU
- 1.3 GHz CPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 1 GB RAM
- $649
- $60
- The phone your average dev uses
- The phone your average Nigerian customer uses
Now that we know what Nigerians use, what does it take to visit MTN
- Uncompressed: ~8mb
Data cost for landing page
- Compressed: ~3mb
- Time to complete resources download is 1.4 mins
Time cost for landing page
- Tecno: ~34s
Performance cost for landing page
- iPhone: ~14s
The funny situation
- MTN landing page can take up to 10mb to load
- It takes about 7 more pages to buy data from MTN website
- MTN reminds you with an SMS that your data will soon be exhausted at 10mb
- That means that before you even load the landing page to buy data, you are locked out
But why, though? What are the challenges?
Low budget
Skill gap
Performance
Security
JAMStack
Well is there an interested community, yet?
Gift, Perry & William
First JAMStack Lagos Event
> 50 attendees
What of practical use-cases?
Small Businesses
Personal Contents/Blogs
Startups
