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HOW MUCH is your Website Mobile ready ?
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Score it @ http://ready.mobi. On the site type in the URL of your website (for example: www.shekhargovindarajan.com) and hit the GO button. Read the interesting tips on mobile optimization till you see the results – “Page results”.
Following were the depicted (graphically) scores for the home page (http://www.shekhargovindarajan.com) of this Blog (click to see the full graph):
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- Total Score
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- Download Size
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- Download Time
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- Estimated rate in countries (other than India)
- The score was 2.45 out of 5
- 2.45 was rounded off to “3″ as “Overall” score by Ready.mobi
- Just for information: www.google.com scored 5/5!
- Just for information: www.yahoo.com scored 4/5
I’m happy with:
- The reported download size of the homepage (4.8k)
- The reported download speed on an Edge connection (about 1.2 seconds)
Note:
- Ready.mobi works with WordPress plugins (and should work with other such plugins) which detect a mobile device (or mobile browser) and redirect it to the mobile friendly version/site.
- If you are using caching, then you may first like to hit (or browse) the Website page. This will build the cache, in case the page is not visited for a while. And then perform the Ready.mobi test. The speed at which the page loads contributes to the overall score.
- To checkout your Website on the mobile emulators (on the Page Results) you will need Sun Java Plugin
- Mobile website developers or webmasters should check out http://dev.mobi/content/dotmobi-mobile-web-developers-guide.
- You may have noticed on the home page of Ready.mobi, it also offers entire site check (instead of checking page by page). The site check requires registration. Havn’t checked this out yet.
I’m not happy with the overall score (despite, specifically, using a Mobile Plugin for this Blog). If you scroll down the Ready.mobi’s “Page results” page, it will tell you the tests which have failed. I found the following tests failing for the hompage of this site:
- XHTML Mobile Profile
- Valid Markup
- Structure
Clicking on the failed tests, explains it further and also gives a link to “Help me fix it”. Therefore the next step for me is – to try to fix these mobile unfriendly errors. Will update this Blog post as I proceed. Subsequently will run this Blog through the entire site check of Ready.mobi.
In the meanwhile, please share your scores and fixes via comments.
Update:
AND THE HOME PAGE NOW SCORES 5 out of 5!!!
todo: testing on mobile after the changes, how I did it, possible contribution back to WordPress!
Update (May 30, 2009): After updating the WordPress Mobile Edition Plugin to 3.0.4 (refer to Browse this blog on a Mobile), I get a score of 5 out of 5. That is, no modifications required to get a 5/5 score at ready.mobi if you are using the latest version of the plugin.
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Tags: 5/5, caching, Java, mobile friendly, mobile friendly version/site, mobile optimized, mobile version, ready.mobi, Valid Markup, Wordpress, Wordpress Mobile Edition, www.google.com, www.shekhargovindarajan.com, www.yahoo.com, XHTML Mobile Profile
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I have a question, how to make w3c mobileOK validator checks my mobile version as like as ready dot mobi do?
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Hi Dani,
Browse to the url http://www.w3.org/Mobile/
In the text box on bottom right, type in the URL of your website and click on Check!
This will show you the score along with the details/errors of the HTML markup which needs to be fixed – to make your website more mobile friendly.
Henceforth, you may have to fix these errors manually by changing your HTML markup as prescribed in the error details.
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yes I did, but it reads my desktop/screen version only, not the mobile version, and ready dot mobi reads the mobile version properly
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Oh ok. You are right.
Are you using Wordpress with Alex King’s Mobile Edition plugin?
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I checked your blog on my mobile. Seems you are using wp-pda plugin. Try the following:
Open the file named pda.php (one of the files of wp-pda plugin) and find the line (line number 19) which says:
$defaultUserAgents = “Elaine/3.0, iPhone, iPod …..
Modify this line to:
$defaultUserAgents = “W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0, Elaine/3.0, iPhone, iPod ……
Basically, add the user agent “W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0″ to the defaultUserAgents string. I found this useragent string in my Web server’s logs. Let me know if this worked for you
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Hi Shekhar,
I fill in “W3C-mobileOK/DDC-1.0″ (W3C-mobileOK user agent string) to wp-pda’s browsers agent column via plugin options panel..
and it works, thank you
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