{"id":261,"date":"2012-10-31T22:53:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gikmedia.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:44:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T10:44:26","slug":"test-your-website-on-mobile-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/test-your-website-on-mobile-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Test Website On Mobile Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using mobile devices to browse the Internet is becoming more popular, all website should be mobile ready. So how can you test website on mobile devices without buying a host of handsets? There are several options out there that will run test on website to give an ideas how they work.<\/p>\n

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How to Test Website On Mobile Devices<\/h2>\n

Here is a list of some websites and tools that I use to test website when I build them. These are all the free and easy to use.<\/p>\n

Mobilephoneemulator.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is an Mobile Emulator and allows you test a site on a range of devices from Iphones, Blackberries, Samsung Galaxy, and many more. It is limited in terms of browser types you can use, however its a good starting point.<\/p>\n

Opera.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Opera Mobile Emulator is a great piece of software you can download it and run it from your desktop and offers a wide range of devices you can test your site on. It is a great tool for checking sites on Opera Mobile Browser<\/p>\n

Validator.w3.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ideal for testing how ready your site is for mobile devices. It test for errors and best practices and is a great tool to help get your site mobile ready.<\/p>\n

Ready.mobi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Another site that test the mobile readiness of your website. Its a little more user friendly than the previous as it uses graphics and has a lot of helpful tips.<\/p>\n

Ipadpeek.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is a Ipad tester, its worth checking your site on as there are many tablet users and the market is growing.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n

These are some of the free options, there are obviously paid for option one that I prefer is Gomez<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 However if you want a quick ideas of how your site will look on the major mobile devices on the market the options above will help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using mobile devices to browse the Internet is becoming more popular, all website should be mobile ready. So how can you test website on mobile devices without buying a host of handsets? There are several options out there that will run test on website to give an ideas how they work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[64,76,62,48,63,75,34,77,65,36,61,66,67,8],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-website-design-help-news","tag-blackberries","tag-devices","tag-emulator","tag-internet","tag-iphones","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-devices","tag-mobile-emulator","tag-samsung-galaxy","tag-sites","tag-testing","tag-tools","tag-web","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/1017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gikmedia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}