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Mobile Web Design

Mobile Web Design

Analyzing Responsive vs Adaptive Website Design in eCommerce

We recently wrote about the impact that device capabilities have on cart abandonment and how it is r...

Isabel Hughes - 01 Feb 2023
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

Measuring page weight

Measuring the weight of a web page used to be a simple matter of waiting for the page to finish load...

Ronan Cremin - 08 Oct 2018
15 min read
Mobile Web Design

Understanding web page weight

Page weight is the gravity of the web - a relentless downwards drag, ever present and utterly unavoi...

Ronan Cremin - 04 Oct 2018
14 min read
Mobile Web Design

Reducing page weight

This article summarizes the most common techniques that will help you keep your web pages light and ...

Ruadhan O'Donoghue - 02 Oct 2018
18 min read
Mobile Web Design

How the world's largest internet retailers approach mobile web performance

Mobile v Desktop - for an e-commerce site, ensuring both platforms engage and delight your customers...

James Kielty - 18 Jun 2018
14 min read
Mobile Web Design

9 excellent examples of adaptive design used for e-commerce

You may think that most of the leading e-commerce websites today are purely responsive. In fact, the...

Pawel Piejko - 17 Oct 2017
7 min read
Mobile Web Design

3 optimizations to boost mobile web performance

The fact that mobile users demand a fast web experience on any device is neither a secret nor a surp...

admin - 12 Jun 2017
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

7 myths about adaptive web design, debunked

With mobile performance becoming a mainstream issue, there is a lot of debate and some misconception...

Pawel Piejko - 28 Apr 2017
6 min read
Mobile Web Design

Image optimization using the DeviceAtlas NGINX module

In this guide we will show you how adding DeviceAtlas and few lines of configuration to NGINX can tr...

Iggy Bosch - 11 Apr 2017
13 min read
Mobile Web Design

How adaptive web design boosts your conversion rate

To generate leads for your sales teams, you need to have a website that is not only easy on the eye ...

Stephen Clarke - 23 Mar 2017
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

How to detect touchscreen devices in PHP, Java, .NET and Python

Did you know that according to Google 53% of mobile users abandon websites that take longer than 3 s...

Pawel Piejko - 09 Feb 2017
6 min read
Mobile Web Design

Most used phone screen sizes to design websites for in 2017

Knowing the most used smartphone screen sizes in your target market can help you decide on how to ad...

Pawel Piejko - 17 Jan 2017
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

8 methods to boost your conversion rate on mobile

Did you know that on average conversion rate on mobile is nearly 3x lower than on desktop computers?...

Pawel Piejko - 25 Nov 2016
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

10 surprising statistics on mobile web design

We're all acutely aware of the fact that we live in an era of mobile devices but when it comes to in...

Pawel Piejko - 25 Oct 2016
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

AMP for all using DeviceAtlas

AMP is growing in importance in the web publishing world. This post describes a method for exposing ...

Ronan Cremin - 30 Sep 2016
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

Most popular viewport size statistics for 2016

The stats on the most popular viewport sizes are particularly important for web designers who must t...

Pawel Piejko - 26 Jan 2016
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

How to optimize images for mobile with a little server-side magic

Websites are often bloated with heavy images which make browsing on-the-go a very disappointing expe...

Pawel Piejko - 20 Jan 2016
2 min read
Mobile Web Design

Delivering performance on a Diverse Web

Device diversity has grown to a point where web developers can’t simply assume that they know ...

Pawel Piejko - 29 Oct 2015
3 min read
Mobile Web Design

Accelerated Mobile Pages is Google's attempt to 'unsuck' the mobile web

Smartphones are the main way to access websites for a growing number of users, even though the mobil...

Pawel Piejko - 20 Oct 2015
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

RESS helps you get the best of adaptive and responsive techniques

RESS (Responsive Web Design with Server-Side Components), also known as the hybrid approach, offers ...

Pawel Piejko - 13 Oct 2015
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

How top Alexa companies use Adaptive Web Design

We took a stab at checking how some of the largest websites are addressing mobile users today. It tu...

Pawel Piejko - 19 Aug 2015
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

Mobile setup for your website — dynamic serving vs separate URLs

Responsive Web Design is the least flexible approach in terms of addressing the needs of mobile visi...

Pawel Piejko - 30 Jul 2015
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

Web performance qualms make the news again

A recent article published on The Verge has yet again raised the question of web performance. In thi...

Ronan Cremin - 22 Jul 2015
2 min read
Mobile Web Design

A 100MB website is mobile-friendly, according to Google

Have you used Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test tool? If yes, you should know that this tool does ...

Pawel Piejko - 07 May 2015
2 min read
Mobile Web Design

10 great examples of adaptive web design

Adaptive web design (AWD) is one of the techniques of addressing mobile visitors optimizing their ex...

Pawel Piejko - 27 Mar 2015
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

Are you ready for the mobile-friendly search algorithm update?

Google search engine algorithm will increase the weighting for mobile-friendliness for search rankin...

Pawel Piejko - 20 Mar 2015
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

6 mobile web trends to watch for in 2015 from DeviceAtlas’s experts

The world of mobile devices spurs innovation every year, sometimes dramatically changing the entire ...

Pawel Piejko - 16 Jan 2015
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

HTML5 support in mobile devices

Now that the HTML5 set of standards has reached Recommendation status (the W3C's way of saying it's ...

Ronan Cremin - 11 Nov 2014
2 min read
Mobile Web Design

Mobile Web Traffic: Analysis

As the proportion of traffic from mobile devices continues to ramp, savvy marketers and web strategi...

Martin Clancy - 25 Sep 2014
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

Web Development is a Broad Church

Maximiliano Firtman (@firt) published a very comprehensive piece touching on performance, RWD, RESS,...

Martin Clancy - 23 Jul 2014
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Google Latest Redirection Guidelines

Google has recently upped the ante with its updated stance on redirection of users to mobile content...

Martin Clancy - 10 Jun 2014
6 min read
Mobile Web Design

How to implement Drag and Drop for touch devices

Over on dotMobi's mobiForge resource site for those involved in developing for mobile-friendly conte...

Martin Clancy - 18 Apr 2014
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

RWD: Responsible Web Design and how websites cope with compromised connectivity

Over on mobiForge, dotMobi's mobile and web technology resource site for developers, designers and t...

Martin Clancy - 07 Apr 2014
2 min read
Mobile Web Design

Getting Ready For HTTP 2.0

As the underlying mechanism that runs the web, HTTP is the language spoken by browsers and web serve...

Martin Clancy - 10 Mar 2014
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Mobile and Web: restating our assumptions

Over on mobiForge, our developer related website, we take a look at how thinking about designing and...

Martin Clancy - 21 Nov 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

HTML5 for the Mobile Web - Forms and Input Types

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Martin Clancy - 14 Oct 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

Mobile SEO Tips

Over on dotMobi's mobiForge resource for mobile developers, Bryson Meunier writes about mobile SEO a...

Martin Clancy - 23 Sep 2013
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

HTML5 Touch Events for Mobile

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Martin Clancy - 16 Aug 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

Developing with Google Maps v2 for Android

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Martin Clancy - 13 Aug 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

HTML5 Device Orientation API: How To

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Martin Clancy - 11 Jul 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

What does iOS7 mean for developers?

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Martin Clancy - 05 Jul 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

Designing for Touch Screen Interfaces

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Martin Clancy - 21 Jun 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

Fine Tuning Mobile: A study of how large Webcos do it

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Martin Clancy - 12 Apr 2013
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Breaking Development Orlando

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Martin Clancy - 08 Apr 2013
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Why Responsive Web Design is not always the best option for a mobile SEO strategy

There are a lot of misconceptions about what Google is saying about mobile SEO. First and foremost, ...

Pawel Piejko - 21 Mar 2013
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

Responsive Web Design - an SEO perspective

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Martin Clancy - 21 Mar 2013
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

Introducing a new dotMobi tool: Prism

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Martin Clancy - 30 Nov 2012
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Towards a Standard for Third Party Browser Identification

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Martin Clancy - 02 Nov 2012
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Anatomy of a mobile web experience: facebook.com

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Ronan Cremin - 12 Apr 2012
8 min read
Mobile Web Design

Anatomy of a mobile web experience: google.com

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Ronan Cremin - 30 Mar 2012
5 min read
Mobile Web Design

10 reasons why mobile analytics are mission critical to a sustainable mobile strategy

Analyzing web traffic at the device level is absolutely essential for all businesses willing to unde...

Pawel Piejko - 25 Jan 2012
4 min read
Mobile Web Design

Chet Fenster of MEC explains why brands need a mobile strategy

Chet Fenster of MEC Entertainment, one of the world's top media agency networks makes some salient p...

admin - 18 Nov 2011
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Mobile web content adaptation techniques

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Ronan Cremin - 01 Nov 2011
18 min read
Mobile Web Design

Why HTML5 changes everything

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admin - 28 Sep 2011
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Five top tips for a great mobile Website

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admin - 28 Sep 2011
0 min read
Mobile Web Design

The best of breaking development conference

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admin - 15 Sep 2011
1 min read
Mobile Web Design

Mobile apps: native vs. web apps - what are the pros and cons?

Rapid advances in HTML5, the new more mobile friendly version of the Web language, and the hard work...

Pawel Piejko - 08 Sep 2010
12 min read