Make Your WordPress Website Mobile Friendly With These Super Tricks
We have some basic principles which you can implement-yourself to improve the mobile friendliness of your WordPress website.
There are some points which recover all the aspects which make your website mobile-friendly.
- Why it is essential to make your website mobile friendly.
- Tools which are useful to test your mobile friendliness.
- Some simple & basic tricks which makes your site mobile friendly without any cost.
- Creating an App version of the WordPress website in two different ways.
Let’s get start describes these points in details.
According to the survey in 2016 desktop is still leading in the USA with the traffic of 58% of all traffic. But the mobile traffic is accounted 51.3% of worldwide traffic. It shows the trends are moving everything towards mobile.
So why should we make our website desktop friendly only? While mobile-friendly design can actually help in making your site higher in Google’s mobile search engine has their specific algorithm which are applied on our mobile search results. So the mobile friendly website can boost your ranking in mobile search results.
Check your WordPress website is a mobile compatible or not?
Further we discussed, the mobile friendly design is important but how can we know? Figure it out.
- What is mobile friendly design?
- Is your WordPress website mobile friendly or not?
Here we discuss these points in detail
What does Google consider to be mobile friendly?
Google has so touched me specific guidelines for mobile friendliness. What Google says to avoid -trying to make your WordPress site mobile friendly.
Unplayable content –Make sure your any contents source which you include in your site should be run on both desktop and mobile.
Small font size– Google recommends a pixel size for any mobile font is minimum 16px.
Touch elements that are too close– Avoid the touch elements too close, here we need to give users enough space to users to touch the correct element.
In correct viewport- Mobile pages should be set properly in a Viewport.
How can we use the Google’s mobile friendly checker tool?
So now we can check our WordPress theme is mobile friendly or not, thanks to Google because it has a tool for checking which is called “mobile friendly test“ then copy the URL of your site and paste it in the field of URL and run the test.
Google will analyze the page of your WordPress website and tell you how mobile friendly is your design.
How can we make our WordPress website mobile friendly for free?
We have some tips for make your site mobile friendly. It covers anything like plugin choice, theme, limiting popups and Google AMP etc. Use a responsive WordPress instead of going back and redefine and customize theme to be mobile friendly so it’s clear that you should pick the responsive theme. If you are looking for the responsive WordPress themes Org home directory is responsive nowadays but it doesn’t mean to responsive website is 100 % mobile friendly.
So how can you find -how exactly the WordPress theme you are looking at is mobile friendly?
Most of the WordPress theme sites provide a demo site for preview. Here is the way we have to copy the URL of demo site and paste it into Google’s Mobile friendly Test tool. So, before you choose theme of WordPress make sure it is mobile friendly or not.
Or you can use a different theme for mobile.
We don’t recommend this approach for majority off WordPress sites. But if you like the current desktop look of your WordPress theme, but not satisfied with its mobile friendliness you can use a different theme for your mobile traffic.
A plugin called mobile Smart which is free will help you to use a different WordPress theme depending on the device of each visitor, But we recovered that u should use a single responsive theme, it’s still a better approach.
Make sure your plugin follows responsive design, too
It’s not enough to choose a responsive WordPress theme also need to make sure that the plugin you installed-is operates in responsive design principles.
For example if you add a contact form on your site. So you have to check the contact from looks good on both mobile and desktop. But now automated tool is not available to test, so you will need to check it manually.
Take the advantage of responsive controls if you are using a page builder.
Page builder is very popular in now a days usually you use a drag and drop interface for moving on elements, but it allows you to create a complex design only without needing to know any code.
So how will the page builder helpful into making your WordPress site mobile friendly?
Basically most of the page builder let you know to enable or disable the elements depending on the device which is used by the visitors.
For example the page builder elements, if I have an image which looks great on desktop but on mobile page it takes time to load. So need to uncheck the box to ensure that the image does not show on the mobile page. Limit the aggressive paper on mobile.
It’s easy and you no need to make any extra effort to do this you need to refrain from showing the popups on the mobile version of the WordPress site because it’s annoying for mobile users and Google’s mobile friendly design standards. It also affects the ranking of your site in mobile search. That’s because Google makes a penalty for the sites where the content is not easily accessible on the transition from the result of mobile search. This penalty has been activated since Jan 10, 2017.
So don’t use the popups on your mobile page especially not for the first page because no visitor comes to the first page after coming from Google search results.