Tips to Make a Mobile Friendly Website

Do you know that the mobile uses surpassed the desktop users in 2016? Due to the increasing number of the mobile users, Google recently declared they will look for a mobile version of a website for ranking and indexing purpose.

So, your website must need to be mobile friendly in terms of good ranking and user experience. This article will highlight some ways to make your website mobile friendly.

Before making any adjustment check how your website is performing in mobile device. You can use the below tools.

Google Mobile friendliness test tool: – By using this tool you can check your website is mobile friendly or not.

Uptrends: – Check your website’s opening speed in mobile from different location servers by using this tool.

Google Insight Tool: – Use this tool to get deep insights on your website’s mobile performance. And check the recommendation to fix the issues.

Here are the top three tips to make a mobile-friendly website:

1. Make it responsive

 A responsive website always performs well on different resolution screens. It displays the same content and element according to the screen size without breaking the design. In a responsive design, you don’t need to eliminate any part of the website for small devices. So, it’s very important for all web design company when designing the website about the responsiveness of the website on different screen

2. Take care of the CLS factor

If you check your website in Google insight speed test, you will find the time of cumulative layout shift (CLS). For a good user experience in mobile, it should not be more than 0.1 sec. Google has recently included a new ranking factor “core web vital”. CLS is one of the most import part in core web vitals.

CLS actually refers to the visual stability of your content. Sometime you noticed that you click a link but the click not works or the click placed on a wrong position. This is because of moving content when until the page fully loaded.

To fix this issue, don’t allow pop up ads inside content. Another reason can be not allocating the dimension for an image, video or content block to display. 

3. Make website speed your first priority

In 2018 Google announced that they will consider page speed as a ranking signal for mobile search. Also, your bounce rate will be increasing significantly unless the page opens within 3 seconds. So, a fast-opening speed is always important. You should take care of several factors to improve your page opening speed like,

Use of an AMP version: –

AMP stands for accelerated mobile pages. AMP works on several factors on a webpage. In a nutshell, AMP displays a lighter version of a webpage than the original one. Use can use AMP plugin in WordPress to enable this feature.

Compress images and CSS: –

Google encourage webmasters to use the lightest version of image and graphics that are called WEBP or WEBM. You can get the cheaper size of an image without losing the glossiness by using this type of image format. Compressing the CSS or removing the unnecessary CSS codes also improve the speed of a website.

A Good Hosting Plan: –

Nothing will work unless your hosting provides a good speed. Upgrade to a better hosting plan if you didn’t find enough support from their end.

Wrapping Up:

There are more techniques to make your website mobile friendly. You can use plugins like “NitroPack” for your WordPress site to optimize. Because a code level change is always not possible for every sites. Otherwise, you can hand over this task to a reputed company that provides mobile SEO services. Unless your website’s mobile version is not responsive other efforts can be in vain. So, try to fix the issues as soon as possible.