Is your website Mobile Friendly?
So if you are a domainer that is developing out your portfolio and building sites using WordPress, blogger or other platforms, Are you ensuring your website is mobile friendly?
I was reading this report on Digby.com, It is a long read but worth checking out here are some of the stats about users and visitors and how as domainers we need to ensure to change our habbits to be it developing mobile friendly websites or even parking your domains with mobile friendly platforms.
- Mobile searches related to restaurants have a conversion rate of 90% with 64% converting within the hour. (Source: xAd and Telemetrics, 2012)
- 4 out of 5 consumers use smartphones to shop. (Source: comScore, 2012)
- 74% of U.S. consumers use location based services on their smartphone and 46% of mobile phone users use location based services. (Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2012)
- 68% of men are likely to make purchases thanks to mobile ads, whereas 58% of women are likely to to make a purchase. Further, men are more likely than women to redeem mobile coupons (35% vs. 27%). (Source: Mobile Advertising Survey, 2012)
- 64% of survey respondents who have smartphones have made a mobile purchase after seeing a mobile ad but nearly three-quarters (74%) haven’t received mobile ads from their favorite brands (Source: Mobile Advertising Survey, 2012)
- 25 percent of consumers engage in online shopping only via mobile (Source: Prosper Mobile Insights, 2012)
Even RobbiesBlog.com wasn’t mobile friendly until this morning…
Stats are showing that more and more users are now accessing the web via their smartphones and tablets and you want to keep your visitors happy right?
Mobile Traffic to RobbiesBlog.com accounts for 25 % of the traffic… That is a large number of visitors that might not have been happy with my site until today…
Here are the top Mobile devices Operating Systems that are visiting RobbiesBlog.com
| Operating System | Visits | % Visits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
iOS
|
70.41% | |
| 2. |
Android
|
27.13% | |
| 3. |
BlackBerry
|
1.42% | |
| 4. |
Windows Phone
|
0.52% | |
| 5. |
Samsung
|
0.39% | |
| 6. |
SymbianOS
|
0.13% |
The top 10 service providers for that mobile traffic above was coming from the below.
| Service Provider | Visits | % Visits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
cellco partnership dba verizon wireless
|
12.79% | |
| 2. |
service provider corporation
|
10.08% | |
| 3. |
comcast cable communications inc.
|
5.94% | |
| 4. |
road runner holdco llc
|
4.52% | |
| 5. |
at&t internet services
|
3.23% | |
| 6. |
sprint nextel corporation
|
2.97% | |
| 7. |
(not set)
|
2.45% | |
| 8. |
comcast cable communications holdings inc
|
2.33% | |
| 9. |
verizon online llc
|
2.20% | |
| 10. |
cox communications
|
1.94% |
The top 10 Screen Resolution sizes to visit RobbiesBlog.com are below.
| Screen Resolution | Visits | % Visits | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |
320×480
|
45.87% | |
| 2. |
768×1024
|
19.77% | |
| 3. |
320×568
|
3.88% | |
| 4. |
720×1280
|
2.84% | |
| 5. |
480×800
|
2.71% | |
| 6. |
320×533
|
2.58% | |
| 7. |
800×1333
|
1.55% | |
| 8. |
1280×720
|
1.16% | |
| 9. |
540×960
|
1.16% | |
| 10. |
0x0
|
0.90% |
All that stats above are from my Google Analytics account – A must have for any blogger or web developer, again it’s another free tool that you are crazy not to use, So you can see there is a bit of variations from the type of phones and screen resolution sizes.
How many time have you visited a site on your iPhone or other smart phone and had to pinch the screen to enlarge it, Yes it is great that you can do that with a smart phone but then you can only read part of the article you end up losing your place on the page and you say ” I’ll wait and check it when I get back home” and what typically happens you never do it, Don’t let your traffic disappear.
There are loads of Free WordPress plugins that you can add to your site that shall detect what type of device the visitor is using and it shall then load the best version of your website onto their screen.
Check out RobbiesBlog.com on your smart phone and then check it on your home computer – See the difference?
The Free plugin I am using is WP Mobile Detector – It is 100% free and that is what I love most about WordPress is there are thousands of free plugins for you to download and test to see what actually works for you and your website traffic but don’t download too many plugins it will slow your site operations down if you have too many running, I try to keep a maximum of about 10 – 12 plugins on RobbiesBlog.com but do search and try different plugins to see what works best for you and your visitors.
There is huge trend to modify your site to a mobile friendly site. Sites like microsoft.com, icann.org or nokia.com are modified for tablets/mobile phones.
In desktop those sites look bit lame but works great on ipad etc.
Dude, your website is not mobile friendly, fix yours first !!