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“How Mobile-Friendly Is My Website?”

Gregory Rouse • January 27, 2015

D o you ever wonder, “How mobile-friendly is my website?” I know I do. I work on a MacBook Pro and I’m on my iPhone a lot. I don’t use an iPad, so My Inner Boss sometimes says: “You should see how that page looks on an iPad.”

Well, I found an easy way to do that — a website called MobileTest.me. Here’s what you do.

1. Go to MobileTest.me. Below is an image of the MobileTest.me home page. To get started at MobileTest.me, select a device you want to emulate:

MobileTest.me website, displaying smartphone and tablet emulators for testing websites. Users can select a device to start.
This is the MobileTest.com home page. To get started, select a device.

2. In the search bar, type the URL of the website you want to test, and then click “Go.”

MobileTest.me website interface; a search bar to test websites, plus logos of popular websites.
Here’s the MobileTest.met URL bar. Enter a website address and hit “Go.”

If your site is mobile-friendly, you’ll see something like this:

A smartphone displaying a webpage titled
This is the front page of TheSolopreneurLife.com’s blog on an iPhone 5.

3. You can change the device you want to emulate. And you can change the orientation (portrait or landscape):

Website interface showing a website preview in landscape mode on a device emulator; website title is MobileTest.me.
You can change the MobileTest.me device and/or orientation.

Mobile-Friendly Becomes More Important Every Day

When I moved TheSolopreneurLife.com to the Rainmaker platform , responsive design was a HUGE motivation. (All sites on the Rainmaker platform are responsive.) My former site wasn’t responsive, and I was long overdue to make the change.

It feels awesome to finally have a responsive website. And here’s something I just noticed today. When you’re searching on a mobile device, Google search now lets you know if a website is mobile-friendly. Look how it says “Mobile-friendly” under my URL:

Google search results for
Note that Google says TheSolopreneurLife.com is mobile-friendly.

Are you still not convinced that your website needs to be responsive? Check out the data below from ad60.com.

Infographic listing 10 reasons, with blue-tinted graphics and charts showing data about mobile app use.
10 Reasons Why You Need a Mobile Site Infographic by AD:60

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