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Mobile Browsing Just Overtook the Desktop For the First Time (alphr.com)
More users around the world are accessing the internet from mobile devices than from desktop computers for the first time, according to internet monitoring firm StatCounter. The combined traffic from mobile and tablets devices amounted to 51.3 percent, compared to desktop computers that contributed to 48.7 percent of the traffic. From a report on Alphr: StatCounter's CEO, Aodhan Cullen, believes this should be a wake-up call to professionals who still view mobile optimisation as an afterthought. "Mobile compatibility is increasingly important not just because of growing traffic but because Google favors mobile friendly websites for its mobile search results," he said. While the trend is pretty obvious worldwide, interestingly the graph is skewed by mobile adoption outside of the west. While the UK and USA still have the desktop on top (55.6% to 44.4% and 58% to 42% respectively), 78% of India's internet access is via mobile. Cullen believes that post-Brexit with a need to trade beyond the EU, these kind of concerns should be on every site owner's mind.
I'm not going to waste my time "optimizing" a goddamn web page intended for a real computer just because some crappy little spyware device has a crappy, underpowered browser with a vastly inferior input method. If you can't properly navigate my site on your little pile of crap device, maybe you should grow up and use a real computer rather than your little government-tracks-you toy.
The world is going to see its error in going with these little botnet, spying, tracking devices soon enough, anyway when the world finally wakes up and understands how vital privacy and common sense is.
We need to keep in mind here that a sizable amount of HTTP traffic is just fetching ads for freemeium software.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
came out I rarely visit a lot of sites I use to as they all changed their lay out to some POS where the hell is the navigation even for desktop users. Add in the bizare layout for news sites where you have no idea what is what and mobile has ruined the internet desktop experience.
I blame it on web designers crying the sky is falling if you don't use responsive design and you'll loose all your customers just so they can scare their customers to have their sites redesigned once more.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
I'd rather surf the 'net with my desktop than my little phone display no matter how crispy it is. What are people thinking?
It depends how you measure it. The US is the biggest export destination of UK goods, but by far more stuff gets imported from Germany than the US:
The UK exports $51 billion to, and imports $44.4 billion from, the US.
The UK exports $46.5 billion to, and imports $100 billion from, Germany.
http://atlas.media.mit.edu/en/...
And if you combine the rest of the EU, it is far bigger than the US, in terms of trade with the UK.
But anyway, that's missing the point. His point of his comment was that the UK should expand trade to countries which aren't similar to the UK in terms of desktop-vs-mobile usage, which are places beyond both the EU and the US, like India.
I watched lots of perfectly good websites get utterly trashed *years* ago to make them more "mobile friendly".
Now that tablet sales are stagnant, I can't wait for them to find some new destructive trend to chase.
Like, someone invents an ass-browser, so all those websites will be redone again, with a brown palette, and turd-shaped buttons to make them "ass-friendly".