Less Than 10% Of The Web In 2012 Is Mobile Ready. Mobile’s overall share of Web traffic in the United States has increased to about 9% (according to StatCounter) which is also the same percentage of Quantcast’s Top Million sites that are deemed ready for mobile in 2012 according to data from the Mongoose Metrics Data Series. Since there wasn’t the same data pull last year, it could be compared loosely to data from Brand Anymore in late 2010, which determined that of 7,000 retail websites only 4.8% were mobile ready – a nearly doubling of the Web’s mobile readiness in a year.
In the Mongoose Metrics data set, 118,000 of the 1,000,000 sites could not be crawled for a variety of reasons, resulting in approximately 882,000 sites that could be used for this data. As 79,133 sites either rendered a mobile version on the same URL or redirected to a mobile version of the site under a different URL when a smartphone user agent was detected, this number dropped to 76,241 when a feature phone user agent was used. SEO Considerations For Google Mobile Search In 2012.
Mobile search has never been just one result type. It provides different results and presentation formats, depending on whether the search query is from a feature phone, smartphone or tablet. Google has just announced a specially designated crawler for smartphones apart from what it uses currently for feature phones, which foreshadows a deeper divergence of results between the two mobile types, as well as from desktop results.
Until recently, the results for the different mobile types has been assumed to be the same as those for the desktop or simply just more Google local results. However, data and research findings detailed in a Covario whitepaper on Mobile Search validate that there is much more happening with search on mobile platforms. How Does Google Differentiate Between A Feature Phone & Smartphone? In a search engine’s view, the difference between feature phones and smartphones, other than an ever expanding list of devices, is that smartphones have a WebKit browser. Cross-Device Website Compatibility Test. How To Emulate A Mobile Web Browser In Firefox? There are several times when you may want to test out a mobile website, or use mobile websites to save bandwidth, since they load pretty fast and do not use heavy images, which in turn can use up more bandwidth from your ISP.
However many mobile websites redirect users back to a regular website, when you visit it using browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera or Internet Explorer. Also Read: Monitor Your Bandwidth Usage If you are looking to test a website or save some bandwidth while surfing your favorite social networking site, a simple Firefox add-on could help you emulate a mobile web browser and let you surf the website, like you would do in a actual mobile web browser. The trick involves changing the user agent string, that is sent out to website, to make them think, that the request is coming from a actual mobile web browser, you can practically emulate default system browsers from any phone.
Steps To Emulate A Mobile Web Browser In Firefox Image Credit. Ways to test your site for the mobile web « Web Design Marketing Podcast & Blog. The buzz about the future of the mobile web is almost defining. Even though the mobile tsunami has not hit the web yet, it is better to be prepared for when it does crash down on us, rather than trying to swim to the surface after it does. While I wouldn’t necessarily start creating a mobile specific version of your site, but simply ensure that relevant content can be found on a mobile device. Need a pretty universal example? I had a client that was supposed to come to my office for a meeting, but had trouble locating it.
So the best way to find out the “mobile ready” level of your site is through basic testing. The solution? The first easy way to test your site for mobile devices is simply to remove the style sheet. Resize Your Browser Simple yet effective, resizing your browser gives you a good idea of how your site would look in a modern phone that supports style sheets. 176 x 208240 x 160320 x 240 OperaMini/OperaMobile Emulators. DotMobi WhoIs search | dotMobi. Technologies - Downloads. Simulators/emulators for mobile browser testing.
Tools to simulate mobile devices on a desktop to test websites - Pro Webmasters - Stack Exchange. SDK. Before installing Android Studio or the standalone SDK tools, you must agree to the following terms and conditions. This is the Android Software Development Kit License Agreement 1. Introduction 1.1 The Android Software Development Kit (referred to in this License Agreement as the "SDK" and specifically including the Android system files, packaged APIs, and Google APIs add-ons) is licensed to you subject to the terms of this License Agreement. 2. 2.1 In order to use the SDK, you must first agree to this License Agreement. 3. 3.1 Subject to the terms of this License Agreement, Google grants you a limited, worldwide, royalty-free, non-assignable, non-exclusive, and non-sublicensable license to use the SDK solely to develop applications for compatible implementations of Android. 3.2 You may not use this SDK to develop applications for other platforms (including non-compatible implementations of Android) or to develop another SDK. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 12. 13. 14.
PlayBook Tablet PC - The New RIM PlayBook - BlackBerry Pad. Mobile Emulator for desktop. By Andreas Bovens, Chris Mills, Patrick H. Lauke Introduction Making sure that your site looks great and works exactly as it should in mobile and tablet browsers can often be a tedious process — you typically need one or more physical devices, or some form of virtual machine emulating the whole operating system, and that’s just the start. Our Opera Mobile Emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac makes things a whole lot easier.
It’s a small, native application that’s easy to install on your desktop machine and runs exactly the same code as its mobile phone version — that way, you can be assured that what you’re seeing on your test environment is practically identical to the experience your end users will get. The Profile Selector When you first open the Opera Mobile Emulator, you’re presented with the Profile Selector — see Figure 2. Profiles Resolution Mobile phones and tablets come in varying shapes and sizes. Pixel Density User Interface User Agent String Window Scale Arguments Conclusion.