Free Guide To Mobile Websites & Mobile Marketing
The web on mobile devices is a whole new ball game. Get a head start on your competitors with our free guide. Just enter your name and email address below, so we know where to send it
Free Mobile Friendliness Check For Your Website
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Mobile Simulator
Click on the image below to load our mobile phone simulator and see what your website may look like on iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Nokia mobile phones.
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Examples of Mobile Friendly Sites
Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?
More and more people are accessing the internet on their mobile phones or other mobile devices, such as an iPad, a PC tablet or iPod Touch. "Smart phones", as the latest generation of mobile phones have come to be called, such as iPhone, Blackberry and HCT are now selling in greater numbers than desktop computers.
The Future Is Here Now
There has been two very impactive studies released recently, one by Google, the other by perhaps the largest investment company in America, Morgan Stanley. The Morgan Stanley report forecast that if mobile internet use continues to grow at its current rate, by 2015 more people will be accessing your website on a mobile device, than via a desktop computer. Google recently announced that 15% of all searches are done on a mobile device, and in some market sectors the figure is approaching 30%.
So if your website is not mobile friendly, you're alienating at least 15% of your potential customers, and that number is only going to increase. In a recent seminar presented to their biggest spending advertising clients, Google's President of American Operations, Dennis Woodside, described not having a mobile friendly website as "not selling on Thursdays". You can view a video of the seminar here
Get Specific
Sixty-one percent of users who participated in a recent Google study said they are unlikely to return to a Web site they had trouble accessing from their phone. Google now penalise sites in both the organic and sponsored search results, that are not mobile friendly - read it on Google
The Problem that website owners have is that their websites were designed with desktop computers in mind, not mobile phones. Most desktop computers have monitors 1080 pixels wide or more, so if you want to avoid horizontal scrolling, which most web designers do, you make a site 1080 wide, or less.
Most mobile phones have screens less than a third of that size, so displaying your regular website on a mobile device is a bit like trying to fit a large square peg in a small round hole. It's just not going to work. The text becomes so small it is unreadable and many of the cleaver things that full blown websites do, just don't work on mobile phones.
But there is the other side to the coin too, the browsers on mobile phones allow for things a desktop website can't such as "tap to call" and "tap to text" functions.
So what is "mobile friendly"?
Book a free mobile evaluation for your website now and find out
