It’s been a year since Google tweaked its search engine to favor mobile friendly websites. Many websites scrambled together responsive redesigns to varying degrees of success. While this definitely helped push RWD adoption forward, many websites ignored one critical rule of the web: Your website must load quickly. Responsive but unoptimized websites have increased loading times and user abandonment. It’s not simply enough to cobble together a responsive design and call it a day. Thought needs to be put into how your design will flow and function on various devices, and every effort
should be made to optimize that experience for speed and usability.
This month’s links shed some light on ways we can use RWD more effectively without sacrificing speed and utility.
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