In the website context this means sites that are designed to be viewed on devices with lower resolution screens than desktops.
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How can I simulate mobile device browsers to test websites on a desktop?
Are there any good tools that can be run on desktop machines (Windows or Linux) that can simulate a mobile device, preferably with some options as to screen size and mobile browser (user agent if not ...
14
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3answers
320 views
Creating a mobile website
I'm going to create a mobile version of a website.
This is the first time I'll be creating a mobile specific website.
What do I need to know? What do I need to be aware off?
Good tips and ...
11
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3answers
3k views
Is the m subdomain automatically supported / redirected by mobile devices, if not how should I redirect?
I'm trying to set up a mobile version of a site, and I'm wondering if I can just set up a m subdomain and put the mobile site in there, or if I need to set up some kind of redirect to make phones ...
9
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3answers
317 views
Reponsive Web Design : Does it download the same amount of data on every device?
I want to redesign my blog and website on wordpress to accommodate ever increasing mobile users and tablet users.
I am also hearing about responsive design. I want to know does a responsive web ...
8
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2answers
163 views
What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible?
What are the basic things to do in order to make a web site iPhone-friendly or more mobile-accessible in general?
7
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1answer
480 views
Can a mobile version of site be considered duplication by Google if the page is the same only the css is different?
Hearing about the problems with mobile browser detection I plan to add a button to my site which enables the users to switch manually between normal/mobile version of the site. The button sets a ...
7
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1answer
244 views
What mobile browsers for testing?
I've mobile optimised a site with media queries and I now want to know what devices / emulators I should test with. Where can I find information on what mobile browsers are out there, ideally with a ...
7
votes
1answer
648 views
Which current stock mobile browsers support linked phone numbers by default?
The better question is, are there any that currently DO NOT support auto linking of phone numbers by default? Main support for iPhone, Android, BB, Windows Phone, Palm.
I'm trying to determine if I ...
6
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2answers
193 views
what tools are available to analyze mobile site performance?
the tool must:
1) Test the page/component load/render time.
2) Be usable on multiple devices/browsers.
3) Show results with recommendations per-device/browser
5
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3answers
276 views
https (SSL) instead of http for mobile users
I am building myself a new website, out of privacy and security concerns I am contemplating trying to make it https only.
It will be mobile-friendly using media queries but I am concerned--especially ...
5
votes
1answer
468 views
How can my site detect mobile phones and switch visitors to a mobile Domain?
My Question is that when user enter the website: http://www.example.com then they will just go to automatically to http://www.example.mobi how can i do this .. is their any technique behind that.
...
5
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2answers
144 views
Extremely large spike in traffic on the 1st - 4th of every month from mobile browsers
I've noticed that on the 1st - 4th of the recent months (since January), several sites I maintain are getting thousands of requests from mobile browsers, whereas throughout the rest of the month, the ...
5
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1answer
276 views
Does having a mobile version of a website improve the page rank?
Does google crawl the mobile version of a website? I would think not, since the user agent would be that of the google bot.
If it doesn't crawl it, does it mean that having a mobile version of a ...
5
votes
1answer
909 views
Majority of mobile devices support media queries for screen width?
Where I can find statistics on what % of mobile devices browsing the web support media queries for screen widths?
I want to know whether for mobile optimization I can assume the majority of users' ...
4
votes
5answers
382 views
URL for separate mobile site
I've had a look through this site and found several similar questions but none which address my current needs.
Normally I create responsive sites but on occasion I will create a 'desktop' and a ...
4
votes
4answers
258 views
How do sites manage browser and mobile versions?
I build a website either by simple HTML/CSS, or I build one using Drupal or Wordpress, for modern PC browsers. Now, I want a mobile-friendly version of the site. What is considered some of the best ...
4
votes
3answers
4k views
Mobile phone detection (brand, model, browser etc)
What do you use to detect visitor's mobile phone, down to the model if possible?
Currently we maintain our own database but it's really getting behind due to lack of manpower to maintain it, so we ...
4
votes
6answers
476 views
Should I block indexing of my mobile site?
I notice that Yahoo and Bing have started indexing the mobile version of my website, which is located at /mobile from the root. All of the mobile content is just a reduced layout version of the real ...
4
votes
3answers
280 views
Mobile URL strategy
I am going to be using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile version of my site.
My question is about the best practice on the location of the mobile site, specifically, the URL. I am looking into two ...
4
votes
2answers
502 views
Can I use CSS to hide the tracking gif used by Google Analytics Mobile?
I am redesigning my mobile website which uses a 1x1px Google Analytics for Mobile Websites tracking gif.
The old design displayed the image at the foot of the page, but my new design hides the gif ...
4
votes
3answers
159 views
Filtering desktop users by user agent string
In order to determine whether to serve the mobile or full version of my site by default, I use a service that examines requests to determine the type of device they originated from. However, calls to ...
4
votes
1answer
76 views
Contact details on a mobile site
On the mobile version of a site I am working on I would like the user to be able to download a contact card straight into their address book.
Is this possible with microformats (or anything for that ...
4
votes
2answers
61 views
which URL should I chose for mobile?
I was looking everywhere (as well as on Google's blog) and could not find a straight answer to this question: which URL is the best for mobile from an SEO perspective? Is there a difference between:
...
4
votes
1answer
85 views
How is the scrolling in mobile browsers (touch) different from desktop browsers?
I know scrolling works differently on mobile devices since they don't fire the scroll event right away.
What else is different? Where can I learn more about it? I want to know if it has any other ...
4
votes
1answer
134 views
How to externally host a mobile website?
I've built a cool mobile website/app using JQuery Mobile. I want to offer that to clients, but I want to use my own hosting.
Here's what I want to do
If a user uses a mobile device to visit ...
3
votes
3answers
129 views
Users narrowing window on desktop to see mobile version?
I know this is going to seem like a strange question, but are their any stats on users narrowing their browser window so that media queries kick in and display the mobile optimised version of the ...
3
votes
3answers
241 views
Should I create a mobile version of my site if my Adsense revenue is mostly from mobile visitors?
I have a website running Adsense. According to Google Analytics, most of the revenue is from mobile visitors. Currently the website does not have a mobile version and does not sport a ...
3
votes
4answers
155 views
Looking for a good mobile framework
I am looking for a good mobile framework. This is for a university library, providing access to some database resources, hours and the like.
I have heard good things about the MIT Mobile Web Project ...
3
votes
2answers
300 views
mobile subdomain seo optimization
Hi we developed a site and just released a subdomain for mobile
mysite.com
m.mysite.com
we have different robots.txt and sitemaps for each so for a search engine they all look totally different ...
3
votes
2answers
129 views
What are the most efficient/effective ways I can build a website for Mobile and Computer?
I want to make a website for one thing, I don't want to make two websites for one thing I want to make one. You probably agree with that.
The problem is, we're walking away from this massive 22" ...
3
votes
4answers
156 views
Add valuable dynamic content to a mobile oriented (local) website, any suggestions?
HI to all,
I'm developing a mobile website containing some valuable dynamic content for people living in my city. I did find some useful informations that aren't available in a quick, light mobile ...
3
votes
1answer
258 views
Javascript reliance an issue for mobile optimised sites?
I'm mobile optimising a site with media queries. As I understand mobile browsers are generally quite modern and can handle CSS3 etc well. So does this mean javascript reliance for the mobile version ...
3
votes
2answers
683 views
Mobile site: Should I be redirecting to a different subdomain, or just serving mobile-specific markup?
I'm currently putting together a mobile version of an existing site (Django-based) and there seems to be two ways of doing this. I can do one of two things:
Detect a mobile useragent and redirect ...
3
votes
1answer
127 views
Is it possible to create a logo for your web application for Windows Phone, just like for iOS?
We can create logos and have iOS and Android recognize these by using
<link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="image.png" />
Is there a way to create a logo and include it so that it ...
3
votes
1answer
380 views
Do mobile devices support file uploads via HTML forms?
I'm making a job application form for a website where one of the fields lets you attach a CV. I'm also mobile optimising the site with media queries. Can any mobile devices upload files in this way ...
3
votes
2answers
107 views
What do you consider a “mobile” device?
I'm implementing a mobile-friendly version of our corporate web site and will be using WURFL to detect mobile browsers and redirect them to our mobile site. Having recently purchased an Android ...
3
votes
2answers
150 views
What are the different ways of making a Joomla! website mobile friendly?
I am involved in the development of a number of Joomla! websites and we would like to make these websites mobile friendly. I have done a bit of searching online and I can't seem to find any standard ...
3
votes
2answers
78 views
Which mobile device is appropriate as a utility tool for a web master?
Basically, I'm looking for a device to use on the road and I would prefer to not have to sit down for the majority of the tasks (which rules out netbooks, in my mind). I'm also hoping to spend less ...
3
votes
1answer
228 views
Videos being accessible via web and mobile users
I have to make videos accessible to Blackberry, iPhone and web users. After some initial research I figured that .MP4 seems to be the best format to do this in.
However, my question is: What is the ...
3
votes
2answers
125 views
In the website for a mobile app, is it legal to show photos of actual phones?
In most websites that showcase mobile apps, photos of actual phones are shown as an example of what the app looks like. Sometimes, the phone's brand is visible; other times, the device is clearly an ...
3
votes
2answers
326 views
Update Google Sitemap for Mobile
I have a series of utilities to generate Google sitemaps for my whole site. These files are massive, and slow to build. We want to start telling Google these pages are mobile-crawl-able too, by ...
2
votes
2answers
562 views
Redirect QR code
Is there a way to "intercept" incoming traffic from a QR code and redirect it to another page of your site?
I have a QR code that is printed on physical paper. The scan will take the visitor to my ...
2
votes
3answers
133 views
Is my project a web site or a mobile app?
I am a web developer. I have been developing web sites professionally for 15+ years using ColdFusion, SQL Server, and jQuery.
I am doing a project for a client that uses the above technologies. The ...
2
votes
3answers
165 views
Porting a Flash site to non-Flash site
I have many clients with Flash interfaces that they like quite a bit. But these things don't work on many (most?) mobile devices. This is a two part question:
If I get access to the original .fla ...
2
votes
2answers
167 views
How can I test for a URLs existeance before redirecting to it?
I am using Apache's mod_rewrite to redirect mobile users to my mobile site based on their http_user_agent. However not all pages have a mobile equivalent. Also mobile pages end in .html and "full" ...
2
votes
3answers
3k views
Mobile device screen resolution statistics?
Are there any statistics (or an industry standard) for mobile device screen resolutions?
Im optimising a site for mobile. So far ive just used 1 media query and it works fine down to about 240px ...
2
votes
3answers
163 views
Low “time on site” and high bounce-rate in Japan
I'm seeing a substantially low "time on site" and high bounce rate from visitors coming from Japan. Comparing to other states, even in languages I don't speak, the stats are still dramatically worse. ...
2
votes
1answer
266 views
Google Analytics just start tracking Windows Phone as an OS?
Just wondering if anyone else has dug into the Windows Phone traffic they have in Google Analytics?
The graph below describes it better than I can. The timeline is showing the last year, and we ...
2
votes
2answers
120 views
Pointing to Google that a specific website is for mobiles
I have 2 websites: let's call them A and B.
A is a Desktop optimized website.
B is a mobile version of A, but it's not on the same domain. It also has a smaller amount of content/pages than A
How ...
2
votes
4answers
568 views
How to receive sensor input, eg. gyroscope? (existing technology or future proposals)
Is there currently a way to for a web application to receive data from mobile device's sensors (eg. gyroscope, accelerometer, compass) through its browser?
If not, do any formal proposals exist for ...
