Ready, Steady, GoMo

Last week’s release of GoMo by Google is more evidence that the mobile web is coming to a crucial stage in its natural development. Google had previously announced that 79% of advertisers had sites that were not optimised for mobile devices and the GoMo initiative aims to help those companies create mobile-friendly sites. We applaud [...]

Apple are…Mobile Lazy

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name: Apple URL: http://apple.com Alexa Rank: 36 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 3/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 393.6kb Result: Mobile Lazy What we loved: Looks nice and is consistent with Apple branding What we’d love to see improved: Apple are currently only [...]

Play are…Mobile Lazy

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name: Play URL: http://play.com Alexa Rank: 1,671 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 4/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 47.9 kb Result: Mobile Lazy What we loved: The homepage wasn’t too heavy despite the content so loaded on a range of mobile devices…BUT this [...]

118 is..Mobile Lazy

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name: 118 URL: http://www.118.com/ Alexa Rank: 58,886 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 4/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 175.4kb Result: Mobile Lazy What we loved:The website is relatively uncluttered because of the nature of the service with great branding so it is not [...]

Mind the Gap…and its Approach to Mobile

Clothes and accessories retailer Gap claimed last week that its investment in mobile has helped the company treble its online conversions over the past 12 months. Citing its new mobile commerce platfrom, targeted mobile ads and a GPS-based store locator, Gap told its investors that integrating mobile into its overall strategy is beginning to pay [...]

Ford is…Mobile Friendly

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name: Ford URL: http://ford.com Alexa Rank: 3,163 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 8/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 87.9 kb Result: Mobile Friendly What we loved: Great design optimised across a broad range of devices with consistent style. Good usability and clickable links. [...]

Can you afford to be Mobile-Lazy?

There has been significant adoption of mobile web over the last 12 months and the impetus is growing. I’ve noticed various studies citing 2010 mobile website figures at about 3 million and with the recent growth in this sector I imagined these numbers to now be well in excess of this. So this week I [...]

Smashing Magazine is…Mobile Lazy

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name:Smashing Magazine URL: http://smashingmagazine.com Alexa Rank: 582 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 4/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 1.6mb Result: Mobile Lazy What we loved: An effort to create a mobile presence had been attempted with text set at a width to fit [...]

Photobucket is…Mobile Friendly

We put this site to our mobile friendly verses mobile lazy test: Name: Photobucket URL: http://photobucket.com Alexa Rank: 134 Wapple Mobile Friendly Score: 7/10 (how we calculated score) Load size: 201.6 kb Result: Mobile Friendly What we loved: Presentable, easy to use, strongly branded experience on iPhone and Android. What we’d love to see improved: [...]

Mobile advertising needs more forward mOcean

As previously mentioned in this blog, 79% of Google advertisers do not have a mobile-optimised site, a truly remarkable statistic. Throw into the mix the widely accepted fact that there is an 80% bounce rate on websites from mobile and it’s clear that many advertisers who do not optimise for mobile browsers are wasting their [...]