Mobile Web Design
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How to Reduce Web Page Weight
This article summarizes the most common techniques that will help you keep your web pages light and lean,...
10 great examples of adaptive web design
Adaptive web design (AWD) is one of the techniques of addressing mobile visitors optimizing their experience...
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 rarely...
Measuring page weight
Measuring the weight of a web page used to be a simple matter of waiting for the page to finish loading,...
How to Understand Web Page Weight
Page weight is the gravity of the web - relentless, ever-present and utterly unavoidable. However, understanding...
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...
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...
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 surprise....
7 myths about adaptive web design, debunked
With mobile performance becoming a mainstream issue, there is a lot of debate and some misconceptions...
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 transform...
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 but...
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 seconds...
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 address...
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?...
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 influencing...
AMP for all using DeviceAtlas
AMP is growing in importance in the web publishing world. This post describes a method for exposing AMP...
Most popular viewport size statistics for 2016
The stats on the most popular viewport sizes are particularly important for web designers who must take...
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 experience....
Delivering performance on a Diverse Web
Device diversity has grown to a point where web developers can’t simply assume that they know which...
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 mobile...
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 a...
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 turned...
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 visitors,...
Web performance qualms make the news again
A recent article published on The Verge has yet again raised the question of web performance. In this...
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 not...
Are you ready for the mobile-friendly search algorithm update?
Google search engine algorithm will increase the weighting for mobile-friendliness for search rankings...
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 landscape....
HTML5 support in mobile devices
Now that the HTML5 set of standards has reached Recommendation status (the W3C's way of saying it's now...
Mobile Web Traffic: Analysis
As the proportion of traffic from mobile devices continues to ramp, savvy marketers and web strategists...
Web Development is a Broad Church
Maximiliano Firtman (@firt) published a very comprehensive piece touching on performance, RWD, RESS,...
Google Latest Redirection Guidelines
Google has recently upped the ante with its updated stance on redirection of users to mobile content....
How to implement Drag and Drop for touch devices
Over on dotMobi's mobiForge resource site for those involved in developing for mobile-friendly content,...
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 those...
Getting Ready For HTTP 2.0
As the underlying mechanism that runs the web, HTTP is the language spoken by browsers and web servers...
Mobile and Web: restating our assumptions
Over on mobiForge, our developer related website, we take a look at how thinking about designing and...
HTML5 for the Mobile Web - Forms and Input Types
Over on mobiForge, our sister site aimed at mobile web developers, we take a look at what HTML5 has to...
Mobile SEO Tips
Over on dotMobi's mobiForge resource for mobile developers, Bryson Meunier writes about mobile SEO and...
Internet.org stresses importance of bandwidth efficiency for web content
Mark Zuckerberg launches Internet.org to spearhead a campaign to bring the world online. Part of the...
HTML5 Touch Events for Mobile
Over on mobiForge, dotMobi's resource for mobile web developers and designers, we continue our series...
Developing with Google Maps v2 for Android
New on MobiForge: Weimeng Lee's how-to on getting Google Maps v2 for Android up and running. An in-depth...
HTML5 Device Orientation API: How To
Over on mobiForge, Ruadhan O' Donoghue continues his series of articles on HTML5 for the mobile web....
What does iOS7 mean for developers?
Over on mobiForge, Sean McGrath of The Cloud looks at the new iOS7 and the waves it has created in development...
Designing for Touch Screen Interfaces
Just published over at our sister site mobiForge, we look at the main considerations when designing for...
Responsive or Device Detection? Mobile Development at Breaking Development Orlando 2013
A little over than a week ago, as the dotMobi’s CTO I attended Breaking Development Orlando, one of the...
Fine Tuning Mobile: A study of how large Webcos do it
Last week, dotMobi CTO Ronan Cremin published a very interesting study on Mobiforge looking at how some...
Breaking Development Orlando
This week Ronan Cremin, CTO of dotMobi, will be at Breaking Development Conference in Orlando, the notable...
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, Google...
Responsive Web Design - an SEO perspective
Just published over at our sister site Mobiforge, a look at the technique from an SEO perspective. Check...
Introducing a new dotMobi tool: Prism
If you are involved in developing mobile web content, you’ll know that testing your work on real devices...
Towards a Standard for Third Party Browser Identification
In most cases, browser's UA string is enough to detect a device. However, there are a few exceptions...
Anatomy of a mobile web experience: facebook.com
This is the second article in a series about how the major internet brands deliver their mobile web experience....
Anatomy of a mobile web experience: google.com
In a recent blog post that I did here on mobiForge (Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa...
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 understand...
Server-side device detection used by 82% of Alexa top 100 sites
About 82% of the Alexa 100 top sites use some form of server-side device detection to serve content on...
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 points...
Mobile web content adaptation techniques
This article will help you pick from amongst the many techniques for building a mobile website. It doesn't...
Five top tips for a great mobile Website
First published over at Mobithinking in a series at adtech London, in this video Phillip Clement, of...
Why HTML5 changes everything
Our mobile marketing site, mobiThinking recently caught up with Dimitrios Kontarinis, VP of innovation,...
The best of breaking development conference
As many of you know, the breakingdevelopment conference took place in Nashville, Tennessee over the last...
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...
