The best mobile websites
dotMobi, the mobile industry trade body, has published a list of the top ten mobile-ready websites, but only three of them scored more than three out of five on dotMobi’s scale of “readiness”.
The top ten were Google.com, WashingtonPost.com, Ask.com, Yahoo.com Flickr.com, Live.com, Facebook.com, Overstock.com, Weather.com and USA Today.com. Only Google, Facebook and Yahoo scored well for good practice, but most of the 100 sites tested scored an average 1.3 out of five.
Web pages designed for PCs typically have far more graphics and text than streamlined mobile sites, so end up costing the user more to access on a pay-per-data mobile service. The average homepage costs a hefty 75p to access and takes 40 seconds to download.
BBC.co.uk came in at 28 with a 28 second loading time and a (rather shocking) cost of $1.28, but the BBC.mobi site took 1 second and cost the user 2 cents. It was a similar story for the New York Times ranked at 22: nytimes.com took 87 seconds to load and cost $3.37, but nytimes.mobi took one second and cost 1 cent.
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