{"id":1578,"date":"2015-10-31T19:21:57","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T13:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2024-05-21T20:37:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T15:07:55","slug":"what-is-a-mobile-friendly-website-and-why-is-it-important-for-your-startup-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/what-is-a-mobile-friendly-website-and-why-is-it-important-for-your-startup-business\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a mobile friendly website and why is it important for your startup business?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/is-your-website-mobile-ready.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1582\" alt=\"is-your-website-mobile-ready\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/is-your-website-mobile-ready.jpg\" width=\"545\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/is-your-website-mobile-ready.jpg 545w, https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/is-your-website-mobile-ready-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/h2>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 ez-toc-wrap-left counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"cursor:pointer\">What you\u2019ll learn in this article:<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/what-is-a-mobile-friendly-website-and-why-is-it-important-for-your-startup-business\/#what-is-a-mobile-friendly-or-a-mobile-ready-website\" >What is a mobile friendly or a mobile-ready website?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/what-is-a-mobile-friendly-website-and-why-is-it-important-for-your-startup-business\/#what-is-responsive-web-design-rwd\" >What is responsive web design (RWD)?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/what-is-a-mobile-friendly-website-and-why-is-it-important-for-your-startup-business\/#how-is-a-responsive-website-different-than-a-mobile-site\" >How is a responsive website different than a mobile site?<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/what-is-a-mobile-friendly-website-and-why-is-it-important-for-your-startup-business\/#why-is-it-important-to-have-a-mobile-friendly-website-today\" >Why is it important to have a mobile friendly website today?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what-is-a-mobile-friendly-or-a-mobile-ready-website\"><\/span>What is a mobile friendly or a mobile-ready website?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A mobile friendly or rather mobile optimized website is one that displays correctly on smartphones, tablets or mobile devices. Mobile friendly site could either be a mobile-optimized version of your website or a responsive website.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"what-is-responsive-web-design-rwd\"><\/span>What is responsive web design (RWD)?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Responsive web design is an approach to web designing aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing and interaction experience to viewers. It resonates to easy reading and navigation with a minimum of re-sizing, panning and scrolling across a wide range of devices such as desktop monitors to hand-held devices like mobile phones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>A responsive design kind of \u2018responses\u2019 to the browser resolution and automatically adjusts its design layout to provide an optimum viewing experience to the user.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1579\" alt=\"Content-is-like-water\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Content-is-like-water.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Content-is-like-water.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Content-is-like-water-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Content-is-like-water-439x330.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"how-is-a-responsive-website-different-than-a-mobile-site\"><\/span>How is a responsive website different than a mobile site?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Having a mobile friendly website doesn\u2019t necessarily mean a responsive site. A mobile site rather a mobile-optimized site is a minimized version of the main website specifically crafted for mobile viewing. Hence, it will have limited features and minimum graphics considering mobile viewing in mind. Your users, in most cases, will get redirected to your mobile site automatically if they\u2019re trying to access your main website from a mobile browser, to help maximize their mobile experience, as your normal website is not optimized for mobile viewing. Typical mobile websites have mobile or simply \u2018m\u2019 sub-domain level access. E.g. <em>http:\/\/m.yoursite.com<\/em>. This way, it typically becomes a separate instance stored on a separate directory altogether and hence will be different from your main site.<\/p>\n<p>Responsive website, on the other hand, is mainly managed through CSS (style sheets) and does not require any duplicate instance whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile sites are though not very much in demand today due to the exponential versatility of responsive web designs, but in some cases, if the design UX is complex, it would be better to have a mobile site compared to a responsive design as responsive design approach has several design related limitations and sometimes can become difficult for your web design company to craft and produce effectively.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"why-is-it-important-to-have-a-mobile-friendly-website-today\"><\/span>Why is it important to have a mobile friendly website today?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1580\" alt=\"Mobile-Exceeds-Desktop-Internet-Usage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mobile-Exceeds-Desktop-Internet-Usage-300x220.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mobile-Exceeds-Desktop-Internet-Usage-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mobile-Exceeds-Desktop-Internet-Usage-448x330.png 448w, https:\/\/www.ncrypted.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mobile-Exceeds-Desktop-Internet-Usage.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to ComScore data of 2015, mobile now exceeds desktop internet usage. Consumers won\u2019t return to a website if it doesn\u2019t load properly on their mobile device.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, on April 21, 2015, <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2014\/11\/helping-users-find-mobile-friendly-pages.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google announced<\/a> that it would begin using mobile-friendly sites as a ranking signal. And as you might have already seen, Google has already started implementing it by showing \u2018Mobile-friendly\u2019 tag on mobile-optimized website on their search result pages.<\/p>\n<p>There are many straight forward reasons why having a mobile friendly site helps your business. A mobile-ready website \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loads fast<\/li>\n<li>Is easy to read<\/li>\n<li>Is easy to navigate<\/li>\n<li>Has minimal scrolling (not just vertically but also horizontally)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, is your website mobile-ready?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a mobile friendly or a mobile-ready website? A mobile friendly or rather mobile optimized website is one that displays correctly on smartphones, tablets or mobile devices. Mobile friendly site could either be a mobile-optimized version of your website or a responsive website. What is responsive web design (RWD)? 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