What is the Responsive Website Check?
This Responsive Website Check will let you review your website’s layout on a Laptop, Desktop, iPad, iPhone, and Desktop . Responsive Design is a key factor in your SEO plan. It’ll work for websites that allow cross region fetching of data. If it’s not working on your site, I’ll highlight that this tool won’t work on websites that don’t have cross site requests enabled. If you’d like to use it, but are having issues, please contact me.
Why is Responsive Website Design Important?
Website Responsiveness is a key factor in your Google Search rankings that shouldn’t be taken lightly. Search engines don’t want to serve websites to their users that don’t look function properly on their devices. Can you blame them? Who wants to give their customers a bad user experience?
What is Responsive Website Design?
Prior to Smartphones, and tablets, website design was a lot easier. You designed a website to accomodate different browsers, but the screen sizes were relatively similar so Web Developers designed websites that looked great on a monitor. As more users moved their web browsing to iPhones, it changed how designers built websites and posed a challenge to the existing HTML and CSS codebase.
HTML 5 and CSS3 changed how Website Designers built websites, and offered easier methods to shrink webpages based on the screen’s size (viewport). Want to learn more? Read this wiki page to gain an appreciation information on the design and history of Responsive Web Design.
Responsive Website Design (RWD) is an approach to Website Design that takes all devices, their web browsers and their screen sizes into consideration while designing a website. In Responsive Website Design, content is automatically adjusted for optimal viewing based on the device size. No matter the device, a user will see a layout optimized for their screen.