10 of the Best WordPress Plugins for Mobile Optimization
Next time you are at a family gathering or party, wait for a lull and see how many people bury their heads in their phones. It is all too common. Regardless of whether this technology is tainting social etiquette in group settings and ruining everyone’s posture — the number of mobile users connecting to the internet is constantly growing. With ever increasing speeds and more and more affordable mobile connectivity there does not seem to be any slowing down in sight. According to SAP mobile technologies, there are now more mobile devices than there are people on earth. Additionally most of the devices connected to the internet at any given moment are mobile devices.
For WordPress webmasters, this means that optimizing sites for mobile is more important than ever. If you are not prepared to offer mobile first websites, you will be missing out on the majority of the market. If your site does not work well for mobile devices, users will be quick to find another site that does. Mobile sites should look and feel great on tablets, phones and other mobile devices. In the past few years WordPress developers have come out with a slew of plugins to add mobile first function and style to your WordPress website.
In this post we will look some of the best-selling plugins to optimize your WordPress website for mobile use. We will go over plugins that optimize the design and content to make browsing easy and plugins that increase loading time. Mobile still has a ways to go to match broadband and Wi-Fi speeds, so it is important to have sites that load quickly.
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