If you look around you , everyone has a cell phone. If you look even closer many of them are Smartphones. Smartphones can be used for anything from social media to surfing the web and most importantly looking for your service and spending money. One thing you might not be aware of is only 2% of all websites are mobile ready. What does this mean to you and your business?? This means if you are not in this 2%, a potential customer will not be able to view your website the same, as if on a desktop, while they are using their Smartphones. This can mean the difference between using your services or not. Here are some stats that should motivate you to get your website “Mobile Ready”
- 125 million cell phones are replaced in USA each year. More than 25% are replaced by smart phones.
- More than 50 million Americans access the web with a mobile device every month.
- Less than 2% of businesses have mobile-friendly websites.
- While Apple and Google have a total of more than 300,000 apps, the number of mobile websites is expected to dwarf the number of apps by next year.
- Mobile web traffic will surpass desktop (and laptop) web traffic by 2014.
- Smart phone users consume and average of about 350M of data per month.
- A whopping 52% of mobile users are unlikely to return to your site if they have trouble accessing it from their phone
Well, mobile is NOT the next big thing. It is ALREADY a huge thing. …