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How do you know if your website provides the best Mobile User Experience (UX) to your visitors?

If you are not associated with the web design industry, most likely YOU DO NOT HAVE A CLUE how to answer this question!

On a weekly basis, I come across websites that are not providing the absolute best Mobile User Experience (UX) to their website visitors because the developer did not properly configure these web interfaces for accessibility and efficiency to optimize on-the-go interactions!

The objective of this webpage is to provide anyone without specialized knowledge in the web design industry, with a simple easy to follow instructions CHECKLIST, that allows them TO VERIFY if their website is providing the best Mobile User Experience (UX) to their website visitors! If your website was improperly configured, it is up to you to contact your web developer and ask them to correct these issues!

Mobile Feature #1 - Open Graph Protocol Meta Tags

Most businesses already have a social media presence however, some websites DO NOT EXPLOIT the Open Graph Protocol Meta Tags that makes the web content stand out when a web page is shared on Facebook, Messaging, Twitter, and other social media apps.

Verification Instructions

1Open your smartphone Messages app.

2Using your smartphone, open any of your webpages with your favorite web browser.

3Copy your webpage name as it appears on your web browser window.

4Paste the webpage name to your smartphone Messages app.

5Send yourself a Message with a link to your webpage.

What to look for

6If the Messages App ONLY SHOWS YOUR WEBPAGE NAME, this specific webpage is NOT CONFIGURE to fully exploit Open Graph Protocol Meta Tags.

7Repeat Steps 4-5 but instead, send yourself a message with a link to this webpage.

8Do you see the difference? When anyone shares a link of to any of my webpages on social media, which website is more likely to get more traffic?

Here is an example of the Open Graph Protocol Meta Tags that I use on this webpage. EVERY WEBPAGE needs to be configured with similar Open Graph Protocol Meta Tags containing different content and images that are relevant to each individual webpage!

Are your webpages configured to exploit the Open Graph Protocol Meta Tags.

Mobile Feature #2 - Add to Home Screen

After a mobile user visits your website and wants to store your contact information for future reference, they have several options:

1They can create a "Bookmark" of your webpage on their favorite web browser app.

2They can manually type your contact information on their smartphone Contacts app.

3They can create a "Bookmark" of your webpage on their smartphone Home Screen. The vast majority of mobile users prefer this location because ONE TAP to the Apple Touch Icon, gives them access to the entire website.

This HTML ONLY configuration allows webpages to behave like a Mobile Web App

This HTML ONLY CONFIGURATION allows webpages to be added to any smartphone home screen and behave like a web application.


Verification Instructions

1Open any of your web pages with the WEB BROWSER PROVIDED by the operating system (i.e. Chrome for Android, or Safari for IOS).

Android Users

2Tap the MENU ICON (3 vertical dots in upper right-hand corner of the screen).

3Tap Add to Home Screen.

4Tap Add to create a "Bookmark" of your web page on your Android Smartphone or Tablet Home Screen.

IOS Users

2Tap the web browser Share Icon at the bottom of the screen.

Safari Web Browser Share Icon

3Tap the Add to Home Screen feature.

4Tap Add to create a BOOKMARK of your web page on your iPhone or iPad Home Screen.

What to look for

⚠️If the BOOKMARK shows a screenshot of your web page, your webpage IS NOT CONFIGURED to behave like a Web Application by not using your company logo as Apple Touch Icons.

⚠️If the BOOKMARK shows a long name, your webpage IS NOT CONFIGURED with an apple-mobile-web-app-title meta tag.

Mobile Feature #3 - One Click/Tap Access to Address, Email, Messages and Telephone HTML Links

Are your web pages showing all of your business address and other contact information in TEXT FORMAT forcing your website visitors to manually type the information on their Smartphone Address, Email, Maps, and Messages apps?

Verification Instructions

Visit my Digital Business Card to see how the HTML links AUTOMATICALLY OPEN the corresponding app and minimize user interactions on Address, Messages, Mail, and Telephone HTML Links.

What to look for

Are your webpages configure to exploit ONE CLICK or TAP access to HTML Links to minimize user interactions.

Mobile Feature #4 - QR Codes and Digital Business Cards

QR codes date back to 1994, but they gained prominence in 2020 as businesses around the globe adapted to a "contactless" way to display content to customers and prevent the spread of COVID-19. You can create a FREE QR CODE that references your social media page or webpage.

Does your website use QR Codes?

Have you ever been in a situation where someone asked you for your business card but, YOU DID NOT HAVE ANY WITH YOU?

If 92.4% of internet users access the Web via their smartphones, why not use a Digital Business Card that is referenced by QR codes and eliminate the expense of ordering traditional paper business cards for you and your employees?



Your smartphone Locked Screen is the perfect location to display a QR code

Both Android and IOS devices allow users to customize their smartphones with multiple "Lock Screens" and switch between them very easily!

Even if I am only wearing my Apple ⌚ Watch, I am always ready to exchange my digital business card with any prospective client.

Check out my Digital Business Card Apple Watch features.

Mobile Feature #5 - Do you know your webpages Speed Index scores?

Check out this article titled Why Speed Matters in 2023.

Verification Instructions

1Visit Google's Page Speed Insights Report

2Type your full webpage URL Name (www.domain.com/webpage-name.html)

3Click or Tap the Analyze Button.

4Both the Mobile and Desktop versions have different Speed Index Scores. In case you are wondering, all of my webpages achieve a Speed Index Score of 0.3 seconds that very few websites can achieve.

Does your website provide the best Mobile User Experience (UX) to your visitors?

If your webpages failed any of the test, encourage you to contact your web developer and ask them to correct the situation. Hopefully they will not charge you for their oversight!


Would love to hear your comments, opinions, and thoughts! Raul Gonzalez