How Do I know if My Website is Mobile Friendly?
That is the question that most business website owners have.
Let me ask you a question here. What do you do when you want to search for a local business in your area ?? Lets say, you want to look for a speciality restaurant, a real estate agent or a local dentist in your area ? You might want to start searching online starting with a simple google search. Now have you ever wondered how often do you use mobile devices ignored to perform the search ?
I bet most of the time. 70% of the time, visitors to your professional website use their mobile devices to search for your business online. Now what happens if your website is non responsive -Non Responsive website has elements that does not resize automatically to fit into mobile screens display. Hence the website that is not mobile friendly will look clumsy, non user friendly and hard to read when displayed on smart phones. Such websites can cause frustration to the website visitors and they would not be able to stay at your website for more than couple of seconds.
So what happens here ? You have lost a precious visitor that can be converted to your customer or your patient. You have lost your business to the competition. If you are looking to acquire new business through your website and you are spending thousands of dollars marketing your business online, you should first know whether you have a responsive website.
HOW TO FIND OUT IF MY WEBSITE IS RESPONSIVE OR NOT
1. Google has released a tool for the developers and webmaster. You can use the link below to access the mobile website tester online.
Enter your website URL here and click analyse.
The tool will analyse your website and show you if your website is mobile friendly or not.
2. There is yet another way to find out if your website displays well on mobile.
Pick up your smartphone. Go to www.google.com and type your URL. The google search result below your website URL, before the description shows if your website is responsive / mobile-friendly or not. Take a look at the screenshot below.
Another thing that you might want to know here is according to the latest update from Google, Google penalises the non responsive website in terms of its google ranking.
https://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.in/2015/04/rolling-out-mobile-friendly-update.html
That means if your website is not responsive, your SEO rank i.e the rank at which your website appears for keywords is affected in a negative way. A decline in your google rank leads to further negative impact in your website visits and conversions.
Now lets take a look at how responsive and non responsive websites look when seen on mobile devices.
HOW TO MAKE WEBSITE MOBILE FRIENDLY OR RESPONSIVE
There is an absolute need for adaptivity of the new web design - the responsive web design. If you still have the traditional web design that is not responsive, you want to consider redesigning you website. The responsive web design gives web creators some tools for making layouts that respond to any screen size. The layout looks great regardless of the size and dimension of the mobile screens. The website is designed to custom fit with self resizing elements that look perfect on mobile devices.
A simple website redesign can enhance your website visitors experience and help you to achieve more business through your website. Don't lose out on mobile device visitors to your website due to the traditional website design that you currently have.
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