So what’s the problem?Ī computer screen has a completely different shape, size and aspect ratio than your average phone or tablet, so it’s impossible to create a mobile friendly website that provides a great user experience on every single device. Responsive sites create a high quality user experience on all devices.Ī mobile friendly website “functions” on any device, but it appears the same way on that device as it would on a computer. Mobile friendly sites make the entire site fit on the screen-so you get to waste your time pinching and zooming. Mobile Friendly WebsitesĮssentially, a mobile friendly website is a website that is designed to function on a phone or tablet. In order to understand responsive websites, it’s important to first know the difference between them and their inferior-and annoying-older brother: Mobile-friendly websites. Let’s start by making sure this question never needs to be asked again: What is Responsive Web Design? Ready to learn everything there is to know about responsive web design and mobile first indexing? We decided to revisit this content again after the roll out of Google’s mobile-first indexing, so that we could gauge its effects and whether businesses were taking it seriously and optimizing for a mobile-first world. So then, in 2019, we updated the post a second time. The internet was still littered with non-responsive websitesĪnd news of Google’s mobile-first algorithm changes failed to rein in the millions of webmasters whose websites have been and will continue to be relentlessly walloped in search rankings.
In early 2018, the general public was still cloudy on responsive design’s definition and its advantages. When the post was first published, we figured there were about 6 months left before “Responsive Web Design” became a household name, holding 2015 online street cred on par with “ Zayn Malik leaves One Direction”. The original version of this post was published back in early 2015, when our slightly younger, slightly more naive selves would NEVER have thought it would still be a valid topic worthy of discussion 3 years later. The Industry Standard That’s Still Being Considered Optional So here’s the thing:
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