Advice on iphone impact and google map page drain

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Hi there

I have just provided a page mockup for an accommodation website where their clientele are independent travellers. Although they like the page layout, they have a few questions that I’m not quite sure how to answer or provide valid technical feedback.

My questions: 1. Is someone able to advise me whether their queries below are valid and the accommodation table requires tweaking for iPhones and 2. Do you really think their Google query will make a huge impact on the page? I think it will for dialup perhaps - but not broadband or wireless. I have visited sites where Google maps have been used in an iframe and they seem to load easily for me and I do not have the fastest broadband. Many of the travellers that use the site will be on wireless or broadband speed. A small amount wil be using dialup.

Here are my employer’s queries:

  1. Will the room info be almost unuseable on a small (mobile) screen? If it’s occupying the same width as at present, could the room info be restricted in width?
  2. If the google map is live, it will slow down page loads greatly, and It’s much better left on demand as it is at present.

Please see attached jpg of the page in question.

I actually haven’t shown the left column but they are more concerned about the centre content column. The width of the actual page span that you see in the image is 744px and here is an example of a current page layout in the live environment - BBH World travellers Accommodation New Zealand - BBH Listings - Verandahs in Auckland

Thanks so much in advance.

Here is the image link

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I am not sure I understand what you are asking? How does an iPhone fit into this? Any extra stuff you add to a page, will make it take longer to load. But google maps has slower speeds in mind, so should not be to much slower

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I’m trying to find out some facts around do google iframes slow a page down much, and will the width of this pages accomm table be useless when someone is using an iphone for this page to view it? I assume it will be and I assume that I would need to write separate code for iphone apps?? Or not??? Cheers

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To a certain extent, yes. You will more than likely need a mobile site with a lot of the stuff trimmed down for so the mobile phone does not have to process so much data. You going to want a nice UX (User experience) which might not be the case with this website. The user would have to scroll around to see everything. Instead of only down and up