In today’s technological world, on an average, every household is equipped with various technologically advanced gadgets. And an average home is having more than one LCD TV or HDTV, a laptop, desktop, smartphone, and last but not the least one tablet. Even you will notice that there are vehicles that are being equipped with screens within their interior. These screens may have variant sizes and types depending upon the ambiance they are installed in like home, office, and public. And that is where the need for responsive design has taken a rise in the recent years.

Web Design Percentages

It really depends on the source where the website needs to be accessed. Responsive web design is being opted by approximately 12% of webmasters or more than 80%. As per the recent Google+ poll, approximately 82% of 684 webmasters prefer to use the responsive website design strategy. But, since there are numerous be websites around the world, this ration seems to be much smaller.

On the other hand, as per the analysis was done by pure oxygen lab in 2013, out of 100 fortunes, only 11% of websites were working fine on various devices. Also, as per Akamai in 2014, approximately 19% of top 10,000 top-tier sites were responsive. Here we can see that though at the small pace but the trend is increasing.

As per the study by Akamai, it is being revealed that websites being accessed on different desktops and mobile URLs is nearly about 21% as compared to those having the fully responsive design.

What Makes a Website Responsive?

A responsive website means that your website can be easily accessed by everyone and is capable of offering the user-friendly experience. And for this you will need to:

• You will need to ensure that your web pages get loaded on all the screen sizes with ease. And to do this, you will need to configure the viewport Meta tag. This tag helps your webpage to get adjusted automatically as per the screen size.

• If your website is touch-friendly, then all the tablet and smartphone users can easily interact with your website by just swiping over their screens. It is preferable to opt for the big screens to provide an easy to touch icons.

• Give intense emphasis on the navigation, link and button placement. Set your priorities and decide if you are going to use a navigation and scroll bar or drop-down menus.

• There are various tools available to test how your site works. Make an efficient use of these tools so that you can easily identify your mistakes and rectify them. Give a trial of your website to your friends and associates for testing purpose prior to launching it to the public.

Responsive website designs will definitely go to help you out to reduce the bounce rate. That clearly indicates that maximum of the visitors will stay comparatively for a longer period of time prior leaving. And this will ultimately lead to a better conversion rate.