Everyone
talks about how mobile-centered websites are really important for
Google's ranking if you really want to become on the top. Known all
over the world, the famous search engine-Google is about to update
the algorithm again and these updates & changes will surely
impact on your business. That means, something really big!
Google announced that it will be use algorithm soon that will decay such websites positions in search results that are not mobile-friendly. On21st April 2015, Google will begin rolling out mobile-friendly algorithm updates and the updates will have a significant impact on mobile research results for mobile users! If you wouldn't, youmight be losing traffic only if your website isn't available ondiverse screens.
A mobile-friendly website is the one that correctly displays on every gadget such as a smartphone with different operating systems, tablets, iPhone and so on. This sort of websites is easy to load & read. Simply, it must be totally functional & spectacular.
This is good news for those who have already part of mobile-centered websites as Google will be working on a webpage to webpage basis. Moreover, Google will identify the mobile-friendly section of your website but it will not impact on your whole site that is not mobile friendly section.
In the blog, we'll tell you simple & easy things- how to check your website is mobile-friendly or not? Here are best ways to test the website whether it is mobile-friendly or exactly not!
- Test your Website
- Considering the user
- Speed is the Mainstream
And if the website fails the mobile friendliness test then the reasons would be:
- Too small text that you'll not able to read or the content is abnormally wider than the screen.
- The existing links are too close together.
- The Mobile viewport is not set.
What Do You Need To Do Making The Website Mobile-Friendly?
- How the content looks like? The content of your website must not contain a gap between sentences in the paragraphs. Moreover, the text should be easiest to read & load. Large, visible buttons & menus are classy examples of the mobile-friendly website. The text of the website should be readable & visible without zooming. You'll also need to pay attention to on-page navigation to make them finger friendly.
- Avoiding <del> Too Much Scrolling </del> Thing: The fusion of touch scrolling from the both vertically & horizontally, with blur & smaller view of the content could be annoying sometimes to deal with. Simultaneously, important information that you would want to deliver could get lost in the scrolling shuffle. Hence, save your users' fingers from unnecessary scrolling by eliminating some paragraphs from the mobile version of the website. In a nutshell, the content fits the website, hence, users do not have to scroll horizontally.
- Content/Video That Is Not Playable: The content or videos that is unplayable , due to license-constrained media or experience that is required Adobe Flash Player or other players that are not supposed to support broadly on mobile devices. And that kind of issues could be frustrating for users with really bad mobile experience. So instead of any other copyrighted video player, using HTML5 standard tags for animation, since, it can work across all web browsers.
- Avoiding <del> 404 Error Page </del>: Some websites show an error page to mobile users, nonetheless, they simultaneously they serve content to desktop users. To avoid 404 error page, using responsive design, if possible. This configuration allows to serve the same content on whatever device you may use.
- Speed Is Everything: This is due to your audience do not have enough time & patience to stay on the website.
Mobile-friendly
Test From Google
Well,
there are lots of emergence of websites where you can test the mobile
friendliness of the website. Take a quick test with the help of
Mobile-Friendly Test
The
test will tell you the complete persona of your website!
The
three things are essentials whilst the mobile-friendly test is that
you must know about your targeted audience and the speed is
mainstream that means- users do not like to wait for content to load.
Hence, speed also matters.
If
your website is mobile-friendly then you will get the notification
'Awesome! This page is mobile-friendly'.
What's
Next? Analyzing Your Website At The Extreme!
With
the help of Web browsers (Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc.) you can also
check the website compatibility on different sizes.
Open
the respective website on Web Browser. If you open the website on
Mozilla Firefox. To check the website on different sizes, press
CTRL+Shift+M. At the top of the web browser, you'll set different
sizes (320x480, 980x1280 etc.) And you can adjust accordingly! In
case, when you open the website on Chrome, press CTRL+Shift+I. Adjust
the sizes accordingly.
