Google's Guide To Making Your Site Mobile Friendly

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Here's a few tips from Google on making sure your website is "mobile friendly."

Starting today, we’ll be updating the Mobile-Friendly Test to indicate that sites should avoid showing app install interstitials that hide a significant amount of content on the transition from the search result page. The Mobile Usability report in Search Console will show webmasters the number of pages across their site that have this issue.
 
I hate mobile sites, they always suck, and usually always missing functionality or information the normal site has. I pretty much always end up using the normal site on my phone and just zooming in if i need to.
 
munkle said:
I hate mobile sites, they always suck, and usually always missing functionality or information the normal site has. I pretty much always end up using the normal site on my phone and just zooming in if i need to.
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This. The HardOCP one is particularly atrocious. Sorry guys.
 
I usually just set the [H] main page to request the full desktop page, and scroll it in landscape so it is wide enough to be legible without scaling.
 
Zarathustra[H];1041831762 said:
I usually just set the [H] main page to request the full desktop page, and scroll it in landscape so it is wide enough to be legible without scaling.
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I do like the low-fi version of the site when I'm in limited coverage with shitty 3G. At least I can read some [H] when every other media-rich mobile site is just spinning.
Otherwise I do like Zarathustra[H]
 
mobile friendly yes, user friendly NOPE!

Hard is in need of a major site redo for a long time now, responsive web design yada yada yada
Even the main site has major usability issues i.e. Hardware round up is centered while rest of site is left justified = UX NOPE!

Cmon Kyle, pony up some of that scrooge mcduck ratpadz scratch for a proper modern, forward looking redesign???

Hire the drunk site UX reviewer to give you the down-low....
http://gizmodo.com/i-paid-a-ux-expert-100-to-get-drunk-and-evaluate-gizmo-1693902126
 
Submit your mobile [H] designs that are better, we would love to see those.
 
Both the linked Mobile Friendly Webpages Using App blog post and the Mobile-Friendly Test page are mobile-friendly.
 
archalien said:
mobile friendly yes, user friendly NOPE!

Hard is in need of a major site redo for a long time now, responsive web design yada yada yada
Even the main site has major usability issues i.e. Hardware round up is centered while rest of site is left justified = UX NOPE!

Cmon Kyle, pony up some of that scrooge mcduck ratpadz scratch for a proper modern, forward looking redesign???

Hire the drunk site UX reviewer to give you the down-low....
http://gizmodo.com/i-paid-a-ux-expert-100-to-get-drunk-and-evaluate-gizmo-1693902126
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SEM Hipster SEM-Speak
You say the main site has major usability issues, I think you have major using issues. You're doing it wrong. I picture a person staring helplessly at a browser on HardOCP.com scratching their head saying "I don't know how to use this thing." Categories along the bar at the top, reviews with picture thumbnails below that - click to view, and stories below that with clickable links, most with a Comment link. What's the usability issues? In 2015, reading summaries and clicking links is a usability issue?

... or maybe [H]ard should go ArsTechnica Grid View style?
...or Yahoo scroll-able stories with a metric manure-ton of ads or linked content on the bottom?
 
My only real gripe is that I'm noticing more web sites are starting to determine that I'm a "mobile" user based upon my IP instead of my browser. So on my Samsung Note which is perfectly able to view a lot of the normal desktop sites, or even worse, when I'm on my laptop via hotspot, I'm forced over to a mobile site when there is no need.
 
munkle said:
I hate mobile sites, they always suck, and usually always missing functionality or information the normal site has. I pretty much always end up using the normal site on my phone and just zooming in if i need to.
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This thread should be titled:

How to make your site computer friendly.

I understand the utility of phones, but if I can I'm doing it on a computer. Please don't make the website suck for those of us using a computer. I'm especially talking to you, Microsoft and Google.
 
ccman said:
SEM Hipster SEM-Speak
You say the main site has major usability issues, I think you have major using issues. You're doing it wrong. I picture a person staring helplessly at a browser on HardOCP.com scratching their head saying "I don't know how to use this thing." Categories along the bar at the top, reviews with picture thumbnails below that - click to view, and stories below that with clickable links, most with a Comment link. What's the usability issues? In 2015, reading summaries and clicking links is a usability issue?

... or maybe [H]ard should go ArsTechnica Grid View style?
...or Yahoo scroll-able stories with a metric manure-ton of ads or linked content on the bottom?
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Nothing SEM or hipster about this, its just the current state of the science of UI/UX and mobile devices, Im not talking even talking about complimentary colors or icon shapes, just smooth user interaction.

Maybe its just not apparent when you are dragging knuckles in google in order to parrot terms like SEM-Hipster...lol

But for the sake of facts..... Desktop users are accustomed to 4 articles followed by a new+articles feed. This experience is not translated in the mobile site, instead separating the feed into tabs, and doing away with the 4 article header.

Or for that matter, leave a non-tracking cookie behind from controls on the front page that doesnt require a log-in, that lets a device keep track of reading preferences, be it full desktop, modern mobile, or limited bandwidth (no pics/vid embeds/etc) so browser agent doesnt dictate user experience.

But yeah, this ALL has to do with marketing I guess....lol
 
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