Why a Mobile Website? 22 good reasons.
Mobile Marketing is growing exponentially that is why you need a mobile Website!
Today’s business leaders are looking to create mobile Websites to stay ahead of their competitors. Why a Mobile Website? because mobile marketing is growing exponentially and has great potential, more so with network speeds and with the advent of Smart phones, which make the possibilities seem endless! So why miss the wave when you can ride it!
Create Mobile Website: 22 Reasons
Did you know leading experts predict that mobile Websites will become dominant by 2014? Here are 22 reasons why you should create a mobile Website too!
- Mobile Web is growing 8x faster than PC based Web.
- 70% of the world’s population now has a mobile phone.
- In 2010, mobile subscribers surpassed 5 billion.
- 85% of children own a phone while only 73% own books at home.
- Since 2008 mobile data traffic is up 3000% and is expected to increase 40 fold over the next 5 years.
- Between January and March 2010, 314.7 million phones were activated.
- Android is growing at a rate of 886% – 160,000 android phones are being activated everyday
- There are twice as many Web-enabled mobile devices today as there are internet connected PCs.
- Mobile Internet is growing faster than desktop internet ever did.
- 1,000,000 smart phones are activated every week.
- Google reports that mobile search volume is up 130% year-over-year.
- 65% online search market share is eclipsed in mobile…where Google owns 95% of search.
- A whopping 53% of Bing mobile queries are targeted on local, meaning searchers on mobile devices are searching for local stuff like restaurants, tourist spots, the best bars, etc…
- Mobile searches are the #one method for finding local information – According to Google Data 88% of users looking for local info take action within a day.
- Ad CTRs on mobile devices were 37% more than desktop.
- Consumers are 51% more likely to purchase from retailers that have mobile-specific Websites.
- By 2014, it’s predicted that mobile Internet usage will overtake desktop Internet usage.
- One half of all local searches are performed on mobile devices.
- Reports have shown an increase of 29% of all mobile searches from the first quarter of 2011. The same rise was measured in mobile retail search traffic that saw a whopping increase of 181%; compared to last year’s figures.
- Regular Websites annoy mobile Web users – Mobile phones have smaller screens, forcing users to scroll and make it harder to read content.
- Google uses different indexes – Google tracks mobile Websites separate from their main database. Claim an early spot before your competitor does!
- One out of five people view the Web from mobile devices everyday – Don’t be the last who grabs these users attention.
You can check out how your Website would look on a mobile smart phone so that you can know how easy or frustrating it is for your mobile visitors to go and linger on your Website.
