Is Your Website Mobile-Friendly? How to Check

More than half of all website visits now happen on a phone, which means a site that only looks good on a desktop monitor is losing customers before they even get to your content. Here's a quick way to check where you stand.

Pull it up on your own phone

It sounds obvious, but it's the fastest check available. Open your website on your phone and actually try to use it: read the text without zooming, tap the buttons, fill out a form. If anything feels fiddly to you, it will feel fiddly to your customers.

Check your text size and spacing

Text that's readable on a desktop can be uncomfortably small on mobile. Buttons and links also need enough space around them so visitors aren't accidentally tapping the wrong thing.

Test your forms and calls to action

Contact forms, "Book Now" buttons, and checkout flows are where mobile usability problems cost you the most — a customer who gives up partway through a form on their phone often won't come back to try again on a desktop.

Look at your load time

Mobile connections aren't always as fast as home Wi-Fi. A site full of large, unoptimised images might load fine at your desk and drag painfully on a train.

Run a quick technical check

Google's Mobile-Friendly Test is a free way to get a technical read on how your site performs on mobile, separate from your own hands-on impression.

Need a hand fixing what you find?

If your site isn't holding up on mobile, that's exactly the kind of thing our design team can help with. Get in touch and we'll take a look.