Mobile Website – Pros And Cons
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In the upcoming years, the mobile devices will overtake the desktop computers as the primary devices to access the internet. So, it is important to have a mobile-friendly website for your business. You need to provide seamless and user-friendly experience for your clients/customers and prospects using the tablets and the smartphones.
What is Mobile Website:
It has been optimized for viewing on a mobile device (smartphone or tablet) which means, your current webpage address should reached the mobile web browser whenever the internet coverage is available. It does not mean that it will be easy to read and navigate on a mobile device with its current design. But it is significant to make your website mobile friendly.
Whenever the companies decided to build a new website they start to build in two ways. One is for desktop and another one is for mobile. The desktop site will found at your normal website URL. The mobile website is specifically built for mobile devices.
It will automatically redirected depend on from which the visitors open the website. The mobile website is nothing; but the condensed version of the desktop website. The features and content are streamlines so that the mobile visitors can get the information as quickly as possible. The pictures, videos and large documents are removed because of bandwidth limitations on visitors mobile data plans.
Like anything, the mobile devices also has its own advantages and disadvantages. Let’s have a look on it:
Advantages of Mobile Website:
- The mobile websites will works on all the app platforms like Android, iOS, Windows etc.
- It is easy to convert your current website to a mobile website. Moreover it is cheaper and faster.
- At the later stage of the development you can easily embed a mobile website into an app if you want.
- You can easily found and accessed through the internet searches and web links on a mobile browser.
- You can easily update your mobile site via your website management system.
- It will be quickly accessed within a few seconds in your mobile; since it is smaller than desktop websites and having only few files to be downloaded.
- The mobile websites don’t have a data hog. Due to that the visitors who have data plans will not be worry about the websites whether it will eat too much of their allotted data or not.
Disadvantages of Mobile websites:
- The mobile devices are not built on the native code due to that it will affect the quality and performance of your website.
- While browsing on the mobile website the phone’s feature become unavailable. You will find some difficulties in that part.
- It is quite difficult to bookmark the mobile site. As a result you need to enter the full web address every-time you are browsing through mobile.
- The full content and features of the website will never be accessible in the mobile devices.
- You will run the risk of people ending up at the wrong website address.
- Many mobile devices are emerging frequently. Due to that you need to update yourself on the top of emerging technology, so that your mobile website will know what devices to detect. Ultimately, it is time consuming and takes high cost to maintain.
