The Importance of Responsive Website Design

The Importance of Responsive Website Design

Current trends in browsing, e-commerce, making inquiries, purchasing and booking tickets, etc., are making mobile devices position themselves as the preferred medium for consumers and users.

The mobile market is unstoppable and its hegemony in the world of online advertising and promotion is becoming unquestionable. However, the technologies and possibilities offered by the market must be used effectively, according to the projected mobile marketing strategy.

For this reason, mobile websites and mobile apps have been designed in a special way for browsing through tablets, and especially through Smartphone phones. At URated Interactive, we design responsive websites that are both user and mobile-friendly.

Responsive Web Design, Advantages

Websites with a "responsive" or adaptive design have been created with techniques that allow them to adapt their content and design to any mobile terminal, with different screen resolutions.

Among the most important advantages of this Responsive design is the possibility of developing a single Web page for all devices, using SEO positioning and avoiding having duplicate content in various URLs.

The user gets tools with more usability, thanks to the fact that the website adapts to the device, whatever the orientation and the links, etc.

Also for navigation and interaction with social networks, there is the best instrument with responsive web design, in this way; the different social networks will open on the mobile phone in an adapted version, automatically.

How is the adjustment made to the device used? Through responsive web design, the website will recognize the type of device with which the user is making the connection and automatically adjusts the screen size, adapts the content, the page layout and the navigation.

Also cost savings is an important advantage. Almost always hosting a website on these devices is cheaper than the expense of designing specific mobile websites.

 Important Data

Every day the time of use of mobile devices increases with figures that increase from year to year, 7 out of 10 people connect every day through their mobile phone for more than half an hour.

90% of users make an Internet connection every or almost every day from their mobile device. As for the hours, 70% of people with a cell phone look at it first thing in the morning when they wake up.

Purchases on the Internet are increasing every year through mobile devices, and also banking operations. For bank transactions there is an estimate in 2020 that mobile phones will be the instrument to carry out our operations with banks by 80%.

Some Pending Responsive Improvements

When we enter through our mobile phones on a website optimized for these devices, the loading time is usually high, among other things because many different functions, images, applications, scripts, etc. are loaded.

Information overload can also delay the amount of time users want to spend getting information, which is usually as short as possible.

SEO And Responsive Web, Digital Positioning

Having a responsive website will allow us to have our brand, products or services better positioned when using the most powerful search engines, such as Google. In this way, we can attract more traffic to our website.

It is proven that users gain confidence and security when purchasing a product from a web that is integrated and is "friendly” for their mobile phone. When it comes to optimizing SEO, the URL is the same in the case of the mobile version as in the desktop version, so it is only necessary to optimize the content for SEO once.

It is the usual thing that the main search engines, such as Google, Yahoo! or Bing, treat a responsive design as if it were a single URL, which favors the indexing of the content of the page. Taking into account the evolution, it is very foreseeable that the trends will increasingly promote the integration of SEO and positioning in the network, within the strategies defined in the inbound marketing of companies.

Do not forget that SEO also has its support in the positive experience of the users and responsive design is a decisive factor for that experience.

Some Consequences Of Not Having A Responsive Website

If we do not attach importance to having a website adapted to mobile devices, the risks are clear:

Not having adequate traffic. You can lose up to 40% of the potential traffic that could be obtained from having the responsive web.

In attracting new users and customers, the first impression and the first navigability count. If users have some kind of problem when viewing your site, it is most likely that they will not enter it again and choose other options.

Registration or subscription forms. If they are not properly optimized for use on mobile phones, we will frustrate users, and the subscription will not occur.

 How To Implement A Responsive Website?

There are different ways to have a responsive website:

Creation of a totally independent mobile version of the website. If you decide on this way, you should know that you will get improvements in loading times since the different elements are not integrated into the main web and can be optimized separately. With this system the speed of the site is improved .

Use a responsive template for the entire web. This type of templates will detect the size of each screen and adapt the content to it so that it is more visible and achieve a simpler and more intuitive navigation.

If you need more information to achieve a responsive web design, contact URated Digital Marketing Agency to guarantee an attractive, innovative and commercial impact generator design for a responsive website and attract qualified traffic as well as attract new customers.

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