01-18-2015, 10:13 AM
(01-18-2015 01:02 AM)DataPimp Wrote: [ -> ]Any poorly designed website will have major bounce and load issues and I have found that a mobile CSS has advantages when you have a thin content site or (ironically) you are running an ecommerce store with large amounts of products. At least for my clients, responsive provides a distinct advantage in branding, maintenance and consistency in site stucture.(01-17-2015 08:06 PM)offlineseller Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks for the share but I would ask for your money back. Not only is the content crap but a majority of this was written in 2011. Still pushing mobile websites when for informational sites should be responsive.I cannot reiterate enough that mobile and responsive websites are two different animals. Anyone pushing responsive sites
without a dedicated mobile site is doing their clients a disservice and loosing them customers.
The mobile site is like a landing page for mobile customers. The vast majority of mobile traffic want instant gratification.
To call or to find right now if they don't get that they move on to the next site.
The bounce rate on a responsive site is far higher from mobile traffic than is a dedicated mobile site.
For mobile traffic that wants a more informative experience they have the option to click to visit the responsive site.
From my experience and I've been selling mobile solutions since 2010 I send handheld traffic to a dedicated mobile site
and tablet traffic to the responsive site. That funnel has proven to produce the most conversions.
Another couple of things to consider when building responsive websites is load time and load order. Wordpress is notoriously slow in loading
This is where an html5 mobile site has a distinct advantage over wordpress in mobile ranking. Also the order which your content loads. I
don't know how many responsive websites I've come across where I've had to scroll through 10 meters of footer widgets before I've got
to the content that once again has been served to me in no coherent order.
Both of those issues are fairly easily overcome by any competent web designer however you would be surprised at how many chancers
will just throw up a site and tell their client it is mobile optimised when in fact optimised is the last thing it is.
Most "responsive" sites (wordpress, drupal and even straight html sites) respond poorly because they are designed poorly. Images to large, javascript loading all at once, crappy hosting and pertinent information not "being above the fold", such as a phone number (which is why most people are coming to your site in the first place).
I don't want to get into a flame war as I don't know your clients and you don't know mine, but I stand by my statements above, I downloaded, reviewed and promptly deleted the content and gave my honest review as i felt the content provided zero value.
TIA