Optimizing your website for mobile

If you have your own website then it is important that it is accessible to everyone.It is also important that users who visit your website on their phones can access it without any problems.
Nowadays websites need to be optimized for telephone use because most people visit your website on their phone.However, optimizing for mobile use doesn't happen automatically.In this blog post we're going to cover exactly what you can do to optimize your website for mobile.

Make navigating easy

You've probably experienced it before, you're on the train and want to visit a website that is not at all for mobile use.This can be very annoying because you then have to wait until you are on a laptop or PC.
It is therefore very important that you work with a mobile first principle.This means that you develop websites for mobile devices first, which means that they always work.
Often if you want to do this in this way you need to adjust the navigation of your website so that it works a lot easier.For example, for mobile it is recommended that you make extensive use of navigation menus.
This way people can easily click through your website without having to scroll endlessly.Make sure you always develop your website mobile first, this is also a lot more user friendly.
If you use a CMS (content management system) such as WordPress, most themes will do this automatically.So you don't have to worry about your website not being mobile friendly.

Small pages

Many people who visit a website on their mobile will do so via, for example, 4G.Therefore, it is important that your web page is not too large for visitors.
Besides causing longer loading times it will also take up more data for your users.If you make sure your pages load quickly then this will not only save data for your visitors but your website will also become faster.
There are several things you can do to make your website on your hosting faster.Think for example of activating GZIP.
This will reduce the size of the files on the server so everything loads a lot faster.Also, PHP files are converted into HTML files and the PHP code is called only then.

Avoid scrolling

Something you should avoid at all costs on mobile websites is long scrolling.When mobile users have to scroll endlessly to get to what they are looking for it is extremely annoying.
Therefore try to keep your website as small and compact as possible to make it easy for users.You can do this by keeping texts short or by dividing texts into different pages.
Not only should you adjust the texts of your website to this, but you should also adjust your images to this.For example, you should make the images smaller so that users do not have to scroll too much to see them.

Speed

Besides that your website should be fast by default, it is especially important for mobile users that your website is fast and compact.Often when people use their mobile to visit a website there is a chance they are doing this on their mobile data.
You don't want them to lose all their mobile data just because they want to visit your website.Therefore it is important that your website loads quickly and not too much.
You can for example activate GZIP, this is a technique that compresses the files on the server.This makes the files a lot smaller so they can be loaded faster and it makes your website a lot more accessible.
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