Here are just a few undeniable reasons your website needs to be mobile responsive.

1) Mobile usage is at an all time high.

This might not be a surprise for some of you, yet despite the statistics listed below, many businesses, public speakers, non-profits, churches and ministries do not yet have a mobile friendly website. Hopefully, reading through these stats. from various resources below it will help motivate you to makes some changes in your website strategy.

• Over 46% of Google searches in 2013 were performed on a mobile device.
• In 2014, more than 50% of local searches were performed on a mobile device.
• According to Pew Internet, In the United States, 36% of internet users only access the internet on a mobile device.
• According to Email Monday in 2015 up to 70% of all emails will be opened on mobile phones.

2) Positive user experience is a must.

According to Google's Think Insights on mobile, if a user lands on your mobile website and gets frustrated or can not easily find what their looking for, there's a 61% chance they will leave immediately and go to another website. They went on further to say, if they have a positive experience with your mobile website, a user is 67% more likely to buy a product or use a service.

3) Load time on a responsive website is key.

According to the Google PageSpeed Developers, standards recommends that the content above the fold on a mobile device loads in under 1 second and the entire website itself loads in under 2 seconds. One resource I used to check mine was http://www.webpagetest.org/ and it load in 1.06 seconds whoop whoop.

4) Responsive adapts to future devices.

One of the huge benefits of responsive design is that the size of the template is designed based on screen size, not the device. This means that no matter what size screen someone is viewing your website from, it will display properly for that screen size.

Having a mobile website is no longer simply a nice feature -- rather, it is now a necessity and literally impacts the growth of your business. In order to compete this day in age we need to make sure we cater to all types of visitors and the technology that they use to continue to grow our business.

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