Why Your Website Should Be Responsive By Now
Recently, The Guardian posted an article stating that apps are more popular than the mobile web and that the average daily number of minutes spent browsing the web on your iPhone or iPad has dropped from 31 minutes to 22 minutes since 2012. Instead of referring to a web browser to surf the web, mobile users now prefer to use apps for the different products they use and spend more time on game apps on their phone. As a web designer, it’s easy to take this information and kind of freak out. Admittedly, when I first read the article, some of the thoughts that went through my head included, “Is the web browser going to die? But I build websites for a living! I’m going to starve!!” and “Why am I always late to everything!!” But, once I started to calm down, I started to realize why this trend is happening. The vast majority of websites look like garbage on a phone. When you look at a website on your phone, a lot of the time the text is tiny. Then when you zoom in you h...