Mobile Friendly Websites

Thank you for visiting the new Kiwiwebs site. Whether you are viewing this website on a phone, tablet or PC you will see this site formats to best suit your screen. Using html5 and css3 technology helps ensure your clients see your site in the best possible light.

Creating a mobile friendly site can grow your business

Most businesses have not done any work on modifying their site to work on mobile devices. They are simply not aware at the growth of mobile web usage.

So is mobile usage increasing? In 2012 Google reported that 30% of searches were from mobile devices. By the end of 2012 this was revised to an estimate that 44% . Google also estimate that mobile usage will comfortable overtake PC usage within 18 months. Given the rapidly increasing capacity and processing power of smartphones, along with the impatience of users to know an answer immediately then it is easy to understand why making sure your website more mobile friendly can pay benefits to your company.

13 Recent Mobile Web Usage Statistics

These are sourced from a study released by Pew Research Center for mobile web usage.
• A sale coming from mobile phones on eBay comes every 2 seconds.
• Smartphone sales have become bigger than PC sales.
• 28% of Internet usage comes from a mobile phone.
• 19% of search queries in the travel industry come from mobile Internet usage. In 2011, it was only 11%.
• In the retail industry, 16% of search queries come from mobile web usage. It was only 10% in 2011.
• In 2011, 10% of search queries in the entertainment industry come from mobile. It has gone up to 19% by 2012.
• Mobile web usage took 50% of sales related to Mother’s Day in 2012.
• 38% of UK tablet owners spend more of their time on their device than watching TV.
• Search queries from tablet increased by 23% after Christmas day.
• There were a total of $241 billion mobile transactions in 2011.
• 86% of adults own a mobile phone.
• 53% of adult cellphone owners use it to access the Internet.
• A majority of respondents use their mobile phone to access the Internet since it’s more convenient to use and they always carry it with them everywhere they go.

Source: mobilewebrockstar.com/13-killer-mobile-web-usage-statistics/

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