I’ve just installed the WordPress Mobile Pack, a free set of plug-ins that format, edit and compress your blog so that it works better for mobile users. It switches to the mobile version on-the-fly as it detects the user agent (browser) used. There’s a link to the mobile version in the sidebar, if you want to know what it looks like.
It also lets you test your site using ready.mobi – this is available to anyone, with or without the plug-in. You may find it instructive to give a go on your own site(s). Apparently, I still have some work to do to make twopointouch standards-compliant.
Part of the suite measures the number of hits from mobile browsers. I found the results rather shocking:
7% of your traffic is currently from mobile users.
You’ve had 93 desktop hits and 7 mobile hits in the last 11.8 minutes.
Really? In that case, I have two things to say:
- I’m really sorry it took me so long to install a mobile alternative to the full fat site. Why didn’t you say something?
- I hope it looks OK. Let me know in the comments or on twitter if you have any issues or ideas. Can’t do anything about the quality of the writing, I’m afraid.
I also had a go with Mippin, which does a similar service. Upside: no configuration required. Downside: no configuration allowed.
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Just to note that a few days on, mobile traffic is now creeping up to 10%. If you make it mobile friendly, then it seems that you’ll get mobile users, discounting the excuse that “oh none of our readers are on mobile, so it doesn’t matter”.
Apps or microsites that are “just for the sake of it” belong in their own circle of hell, agreed.
Nokia is the market leader by a very long way. How could it possibly be described as “slipping behind”? And I think the n900 arguably answers the charge of being un-innovative.
Agree too, though, that Apple has forced the rest of the industry to start moving a lot faster, though.
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