How You Are Checking Whether Your Site Is Responsive Or Not?

11 years ago

Google's PageSpeed Insights gives a decent enough overview on how a site is likely to render on computer and mobile devices.

Apart from that, make sure your underlying code is reasonably compliant with W3 standards.

And the obvious answer that should show any big nasties: load your site up in your phone.

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Adracosta

11 years ago

Originally Posted by trevord92

Google's PageSpeed Insights gives a decent enough overview on how a site is likely to render on computer and mobile devices.

Apart from that, make sure your underlying code is reasonably compliant with W3 standards.

And the obvious answer that should show any big nasties: load your site up in your phone.

I agree with this tool, is very efective and is from Google.

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bendwebs

11 years ago

Another create tool from Google is their Mobile Friendly Test: https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...bile-friendly/

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Jason Stewart 11 years ago

All great suggestions. Also, when I'm looking for a theme for my site, I try to find one that's bootstrap based. Bootstrap was designed from the ground up to be responsive.
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hryan

11 years ago

Originally Posted by arshadul

Nowadays search engines like responsive websites. A website which would fit to all the screen size including Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Mobile phones etc. I think this is pretty important from internet marketing point of view too. I want to know how you are ensuring your site is showing properly in Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, Mobile devices etc.?

Hi arshadul!
You can just resize browser window and see what happens on it. If the window frame cuts the site and scrollbars apears - it is not responsive design.
On other case the design will self re-arrange and the page will fit into browser window.
Hope this will help you to test any site in a secobrowser window)nd (by clicking RESIZE icon at top-right-side of browser window.
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Hristo

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addyonline

11 years ago

I just scale the browser window down and see how the site responds, this generally gives me my answer within 3 seconds.

Alternatively Google's PageSpeed Insights

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trevord92

11 years ago

Originally Posted by addyonline

I just scale the browser window down and see how the site responds, this generally gives me my answer within 3 seconds.

Alternatively Google's PageSpeed Insights

Scaling the browser is a good "first check" but some responsive designs don't react the same way if you do that - try Amazon for instance, you get a horizontal scroll bar on a computer but it's responsive on a mobile/tablet.

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addyonline

11 years ago

Originally Posted by trevord92

Scaling the browser is a good "first check" but some responsive designs don't react the same way if you do that - try Amazon for instance, you get a horizontal scroll bar on a computer but it's responsive on a mobile/tablet.

Yep there is some exceptions

that's why I said generally.

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trevord92 11 years ago

Originally Posted by addyonline

Yep there is some exceptions that's why I said generally.

There seem to be more exceptions than ever nowadays.

It makes testing even more long winded!
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KylieSweet

11 years ago

Responsive design is the best option and not the only way but we must provide specific and strong idea. Its not just the site suits to screen size but most importantly responds to your users needs.

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nettiapina

11 years ago

As a developer I'm just testing it in a narrow browser window. That's what responsive design does: it's settings for the situation when browser window is smaller in size.

After the product looks complete I'm probably running it with Sauce Labs' browser test tools, and viewing with a few real mobile devices.

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megakits

Banned 11 years ago

Google page insight is the best tool for this