It is estimated that by 2016, mobile views to an attorney
website will exceed those of desktop views. It is not uncommon today to see
mobile visits to attorney websites in the 20% range and climbing. The following
article by SEO Moz does a good job of illustrating the benefits of using
responsive design from a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective.
A couple of key points from the article:
- Smart phone subscriptions increased by 55% in 2012
- 61% of people will return to Google for continued search if your website does not have a mobile view
- 71% of mobile users will leave your site after 5 seconds if your page is still loading – so quick load times are very important in a mobile view
- Google ranks websites that have mobile views higher when users are doing a mobile search. This becomes even more important since Google now recommends responsive design as its mobile preference.
To read more: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seo-of-responsive-web-design
