How Mobile Friendly Is Your Site? Google Releases More Efficient Mobile Friendly Testing Tool

How Mobile Friendly Is Your Site

Since mobile has almost dominated desktop in many things, therefore, the ability of your site to become more mobile has been a priority. Recently, Google has released a more efficient and arguably more aesthetically pleasing version of its mobile friendly tool which will analyze your site through mobile friendliness, mobile page, and desktop page with the click of a button. Those who concern about SEO or working in SEO service world will truly understand the importance of mobile friendly for site.

In fact, mostly people will leave your site immediately when they figure out that it doesn’t load fast enough, which makes it all the more important to ensure your mobile scores are up to an acceptable level.

Through the tool you can find out if your scores are good, fair or poor. Moreover, you can also see more detail information about your report in your email box or scroll down from the page to get more explanation and detail about your score. To let you know what went into the score, you can click through to view more details, with recommendations what you should definitely fix and what you should consider fixing.

It will be easier to find out which tools are better once you have had tried the some other kind of tools and Google testing tool. In fact, you can feel the difference through its design, the way it conveys information and its mobility which is more approvable. So, overall it is a great option which provides report sent to your email that other tools may not provide. The report will not be useful for you but it will be good for showing to client.

The interesting fact is that Google still keeps Google’s PageSpeed Insights while showing Google testing tool which means the new tool has not been replacing the old tool yet. This raises questions; will the new tool replace the old one?

A Codekit Review

CodeKit review

Checking whether a code already does great sometimes frustrates web developer, since they must search through a long line of code which can hurt their eyes. But today there are many applications that can help them avoiding this kind of situation, one of the latest apps is Codekit, this programming tool can also be applied in many devices such as Mac, OS X, iOS 6+, Windows 7+ and Android. So, whatever your device is applying CodeKit can be one of your good choices.

What is CodeKit?

Codekit is a task manager that helps you to automate code compiling for popular preprocessor languages. You also can easily deploy code as Codekit for all intents and purposes manages projects akin to Grunt.js and Gulp.js and works with Bower. It is known as a more comfortable platform to many users as it only requires for dragging and dropping approach. In fact, setting up a project requires simply drag and dropping a folder onto Codekit.

Who is Codekit for and is it worth it?

CodeKit is aimed for doing everyman’s task manager. For those whose search for using Sass or Less will probably love Codekit as it focuses on coding and not setup. For the first try you may find that Grunt is quite frustrating. Later, when CodeKit 2 was released, it feels a bit different from its previous one as its more polished and powerful. Moreover, its fun and quick to use. Here are some detail reviews about CodeKit:

Final thoughts

  • CodeKit 2 feels like brand new product compared 1.0
  • Libsass is super fast Sass compiling!
  • Massively improved server.
  • Cleaner user interface.
  • Bower Package Management
  • Animated CSS injection
  • Easy project configuration
  • No more file watch limit
  • Compass is built in and can be manually configured
  • Codekit Config files can be distributed with project
  • Very low learning curve!
  • Faster than Codekit 1 or Prepros 4
  • External encoders
  • Less resource intensive when idling than Grunt
  • Easy to read Error Log

Cons

  • Must make current project active
  • Server isn’t as robust as Prepross or GhostLab
  • Grunt is free and once you get over the configuration hump, more flexible and powerful.
  • Trouble shooting esoteric errors will probably land you at my blog
  • No built in FTP support