{"id":1196,"date":"2021-11-24T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2021-11-24T12:33:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T18:33:42","slug":"optimizing-your-site-for-the-mobile-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/24\/optimizing-your-site-for-the-mobile-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing Your Site for the Mobile Web"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"WACDBU54X1B7UG5PT105\">Optimizing Your Site for the Mobile Web<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"UMYJANDC3RX3W6TGR248\">The mobile browser market is a rapidly evolving and growing field with more new devices and apps introduced each month. Adapting your website for the mobile web is not a luxury, but a necessity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"JQCU54SDRCZM5BLHK027\">A good mobile design matches the needs of consumers. Mobile users need quick access to main sources of information without a lot of the extra material often found in the desktop versions of their favorite sites. Here are some things to keep in mind as you create your mobile designs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"TSRQNZM18EEAWFRU1228\"><li><em>Keep it simple<\/em>. To accommodate the smaller screen sizes and slower connection speeds, scale down each page to a few key items and articles. Users are looking for quick and obvious information from their mobile sites.<\/li><li><em>Resize your images<\/em>. Downloading several images can bring a mobile device to a crawl. Reduce the number of images in your mobile design, and use a graphics package to resize the images so they are optimized in quality and sized for a smaller screen.<\/li><li><em>Scroll vertically<\/em>. Readers can more easily read your page when they only have to scroll vertically. Limit yourself to one column of information in portrait orientation and two columns in landscape.<\/li><li><em>Make your links accessible<\/em>. Clicking a small hypertext link is extremely difficult to do on a mobile device with a touch screen interface. Create hypertext links that are easy to locate and activate.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"GLCYKYE1KYAR8L86L035\">Above all, test your site on a variety of devices and under different conditions. Mobile devices vary greatly in size, shape, and capability. What works on one device might fail utterly on another. Testing your code on a desktop computer is only the first step; you may also need access to the devices themselves. Even emulators cannot always capture the nuances involved in the performance of an actual mobile device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile browser market is a rapidly evolving and growing field with more new devices and apps introduced each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[49,71,70],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-design","tag-advanced-web-design","tag-mobile-web-design","tag-web-design"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mobile-web-design.png?fit=600%2C515&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbo3A6-ji","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idavey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}