{"id":7374,"date":"2015-05-21T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2015-05-21T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:30:19","slug":"mobile-view-goes-over-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/21\/mobile-view-goes-over-well\/","title":{"rendered":"mobile view goes over well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still early days, but doing all that mobile view work (and turning it back on once it was usable) seems to have had a pretty decent impact. Here are some stats from Google Analytics:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-05\/mobile-before.gif\"><br \/>Before<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2015-05\/mobile-after.gif\"><br \/>After<\/center><\/p>\n<p>The bit in red is mobile; above that is desktop; below that is tablet. The tablet audience is surprisingly small; it&#8217;s swamped by both desktop and phone. The &#8220;bounce&#8221; rate is the percentage of people who hit the site and only look at one page. The pages per visit is a mean, and includes the bouncers. The time-on-site thing I consider kind of unreliable, to be honest. (It&#8217;s regularly internally contradictory within a single day, is why.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as you can see, phone users used to bounce off the site at a dramatically higher rate than other kinds of users; now they&#8217;ve moved into line with everyone else. Pages per visit on phone is up, time on site (unreliable tho&#8217; it may be) is also meaningfully up. Mobile users had been dragging the whole site average down; now it&#8217;s back in line with other formats.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess that mobile view is kind of important! In retrospect I guess that seems kind of obvious, but I tend to hate them personally, so I guess that kind of affected my impression of their value. I wish I&#8217;d done the work earlier, now. Ah, well, live and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still early days, but doing all that mobile view work (and turning it back on once it was usable) seems to have had a pretty decent impact. Here are some stats from Google Analytics: Before After The bit in red is mobile; above that is desktop; below that is tablet. The tablet audience is [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-of-indie-music","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}