Mobile first for websites

It's becoming more important every year, making a website mobile-ready. Now most people will have already done some things for this. But what else can you do? We'll explain that in more detail in this blog post.

Mobile first for websites is an important factor for the success of a website, nowadays you will see most of the visitors on your website as mobile traffic. This is because most people naturally use their phones to do many things that were first done on the desktop. So with a website, the task is to serve up a readable and functioning website for every visitor.

Search engines like Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo also take into account how a website looks on a mobile. It is important that the website loads quickly and that all functionality is there. If this is not the case, you will see your website drop in the search results.

What is Mobile first?

Mobile first is an initiative to ensure that website owners consider a mobile website first before looking at other devices. In fact, for many different types of websites, the biggest traffic is mobile devices. This means that for many people, a website is rarely if ever opened with a desktop. Of course, it does depend on what industry you're in, but for most people, the biggest traffic is mobile devices. And then the desktop with a small percentage of tablet users. Simply because not everyone has a tablet at home. But most people do have a mobile and a laptop or desktop.

Mobile first means taking into account the mobile user in the design and operation of a website.

How to make a website suitable for mobile?

Making a website suitable for mobile is easier when you use a Content Management System. Then it is simply a matter of choosing the right theme to use that is also suitable for mobile. If you are working with an older website or if you built your website yourself, you will have to manually adjust the CSS and other techniques. Look at Bootstrap, here are many features already added to be able to work faster.

It is therefore a matter of finding the right theme for a Content Management System such as WordPress, Joomla or Drupal. A new website can be created quickly and easily with these. To install a new theme within WordPress the following article can be followed. When choosing a theme, pay attention to user reviews and the following specifications. Such as being mobile compatible and viewing a demo of the website on your mobile. Think in what kind of content you provide on the website and try out the theme on your website first. Before you switch to this. Some suitable themes include Astra and the default themes of WordPress itself.

Have your website checked for mobile suitability

To request a mobile suitability check after optimizing your website, you can use Google Search Console. With this tool from Google you can also see where there is room for improvement and what the performance of your website is in the Google search engine. As soon as there is something wrong with your website you will be immediately informed, and you can apply the action points to solve the problem. This is free to use and can be created within a few steps. Read here how you can further set this up using your Google account.

Other settings needed for mobile suitability

Further settings that can be applied are to always optimize each image uploaded to the website. Text is easy to read on any device and that the speed is as good as possible. With the speed you can best choose an SSD package. With an SSD package you have lightning fast hosting that ensures that your users can also surf carefree on their mobile phones.

Within your hosting you can therefore perfectly ensure that your website is suitable for mobile devices with a total SSD package. Get your SSD hosting package now and get started!