over 50% of all website views are from a mobile device<\/a> and it just keeps on growing.<\/p>\nThis has increased massively since only 5 years ago and the trend does not seem to be slowing down. The only sure thing is that in the coming years there will be a huge amount of different screen sizes. To maintain your brand image or, more fundamentally, just for your website not to hurt potential customer’s eyes as they read it.<\/p>\n
<\/h2>\nOkay, it’ll look nice… why bother?<\/h2>\n
There’s actually quite a few reasons to make your website responsive (mobile friendly), aside from the huge potential market of customers you’re missing out on.<\/p>\n
Search Engines<\/h3>\n
Google and other search engines like mobile friendly websites and rank websites with a responsive design higher on the list.<\/p>\n
Social Media<\/h3>\n
A huge amount of people using Social Media now do it primarily on their, you guessed it, mobile devices. This means that as you post a link to Social Media, the majority of people who will click on the link through to your website will be on a mobile device.<\/p>\n
Easy Maintenance<\/h3>\n
If you have had experience with old-school mobile websites then I can see why the idea of making a website mobile friendly makes you shudder. Fear not though, with a responsive website, it is just one source of information to keep up to date which makes maintaining your website easy and the changes happen for all devices.<\/p>\n
Future Proof<\/h3>\n
Responsive websites adapt to the device screen size. That means that a responsive website will work and look good on any new devices that are released in the future. When there are new devices released every few months, it’s a no-brainer for me that websites should have a responsive design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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