Over 3.5 Billion searches are made on Google every single day… and 60% of those searches are made on mobile devices.
It’s no wonder that having a mobile responsive design is so important as more and more people turn to using their phones and other mobile devices to browse and search the web.
With this in mind, it’s vitally important you get a firm grasp on optimizing your site for mobile devices in a way that provides the best user experience.
We’re going to dive into 7 best practices that you need to know to build a responsive website design for mobile.
Let’s get started.
What Is A Mobile Responsive Design?
A website is designed as being mobile responsive, when it can automatically adapt to the screen size of the device it’s being viewed on.Â
A responsive design allows the reader to easily view the content that aids and ultimately improves the user experience.
There’s 3 main responsive breakpoints that are commonly used to easily adapt viewing content.Â
Here’s the common breakpoints for each device:
- Desktop (1024 px wide)
- Tablet (720 px wide)
- Mobile Phone (320 px wide)Â
Why Is Creating A Mobile Responsive Design So Important And Worth Your Time?Â
It’s true that the end goal of creating a responsive design helps improve the user experience on your site.Â
Although, what does that really mean and how does that help you long-term?
If you think about it, improving the way visitors interact with your site has a dramatic affect on the revenue you pull in for your business.
Having a good user experience ultimately in turn increased dwell time on your site and reduces the bounce rate. Â
This means you’re more likely to increase in the search rankings in Google when optimizing your content for the search engines.
Remember, the first impression a visitor makes of your site is more often than not the design and layout.
If you’ve got a mobile layout that requires someone to zoom in to even read the text, then you better believe they’ll be hitting the back button and never coming back.
We definitely don’t want that.
Instead, a responsive design adapts for the user to easily view your site without them needing to do any extra work.
How To Quickly And Easily Create A Mobile Responsive Website
Let’s take an inside look now at how to create a mobile responsive website.
The easiest way to create a responsive website that’s mobile-friendly is by getting a theme that supports it.
The best them out there that I recommend getting if you’re creating a niche site is Acabado.
This theme was created by Income School and is especially great for anyone getting started that wants the following key features built-in:
- Mobile First – built specifically with mobile users in mind and a built-in responsive design for all necessary breakpoints
-  Stupid Fast – your site is bound to have Google Page Speed Insights scores in the 90’s and maybe even hit 100
- SEO Built-In – all of the additional SEO work that needs to be done upfront when starting a new site is practically a thing of the past
- Clean And Organized – it’s built to be simple and elegant
Feel free to watch the video below to learn more about the Acabado Theme.
Now, if you’re looking to have even more customization capabilities (such as custom headers, footers, drag and drop widgets) then I’d recommend going with a WordPress page builder.
There’s honestly tons of options out there, but I personally use Elementor on my own site.
Everything is customizable, it has a mobile responsive design with breakpoints, and is an all-around great way to design more of an authority website.
You can read more about it by taking a look at my Elementor review.
Mobile Responsive Design Best Practices
There’s a few best practices when it comes to creating a responsive web design that improves user experience and attracts repeat visitors to your site.
Here’s the 7 mobile responsive design best practices:
- Design mobile first – It’s highly likely that the majority of your site visitors will be viewing your site via a mobile device. So, it’s a good idea to start the design process by outlining and putting together everything beginning with mobile.
- Decrease Call to Actions (CTAs) – It may not be always the case, but it may be necessary to get rid of certain buttons and images on a page to avoid confusion on mobile.
- Design Without The Need To Zoom In – If you’re like me, you don’t like having to pinch the screen to zoom in on mobile and click a tiny little button or link. Not much fun. So, create large images and links instead.
- Fluid Web Design Layout – By including at least 3 breakpoints, you’ll be allowing for your site to automatically and fluidly adjust according to screen size.
- Compress And Resize Images – This goes for desktop but also for mobile. You need to be ensuring you have images that load fast. I use ShortPixel to get the job done.
- Use Hamburger Style Navigation Header – Most sites have a small little hamburger looking navigation for mobile. If you want to have a responsive design, you should do the same.
- Disable Popups – This want might be a little controversial but if you’ve got a popup that covers the whole screen on mobile it’s not a good idea. The only exception might be an in-content form but use it with caution.
Responsive Web Design And The Future
Building a responsive design is paramount to…
- Increasing your site ranking in Google
- Improving user experience
- Obtaining repeat visitors
I think it’s common knowledge that if you’re design is poor, then the visitors to your site simply won’t want to visit ever again.
However, something as simple as getting a theme that is already responsive or using a WordPress page builder is really all it takes to have a responsive site.
There’s no doubt that responsive web design is here to stay well into the future, so go design for it!
If you enjoyed this post, then leave a comment down below and let me know!
Frequently Asked Questions
What does it mean to be mobile responsive?
A site is mobile responsive if it has different design layouts for specific device screen sizes. In particular, there’s typically three breakpoints at a minimum with one for desktop, one for tablets, and one for mobile phones.
What is mobile friendly design?
A mobile friendly design is one that adapts for the user instead of the user having to zoom in and adapt the site themselves.
Why mobile optimization is important?
Mobile optimization is important because it can increase the page rank and overall ranking of your site in the search engines. Plus, optimizing for mobile devices improves the overall user experience for visitors that come to your site.
Why responsive design is important?
Having a site with a responsive design is important because your bottom-line revenue will be affected if you don’t have a site that is built to enhance user experience.
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Creating a mobile responsive design today plays a very important role as today there is a number of mobile phone users as compared to desktops, laptops or other devices. Today a maximum of the searches are made through mobile phone so in order to gain more traffic to your site it is important to make sure that the website is mobile-friendly.
Yep! ?? Thanks for stopping by Rajesh.
Yes mobile responsive design is very necessary as Google is now more focussing on AMR.