Great Mobile Testing Website

So I’m reading through Cameron Moll’s book Mobile Web Design, which I love by the way, and came across a few mentions of Ready.mobi. So I thought I would check it out.

Ready.mobi allows you to test your mobile website against common problems and short comings that mobile web users have. Such as page size, display abnormalities and loading time and then gives your page a score from 0 - 5 (5 being the best). Also, while the software is crawling your mobile site, they display some very helpful mobile web design tips. What nice gentlemen.The scan runs several tests to make sure your mobile website is as optimized as possible for all mobile web users. Here’s a list of some of the tests it runs:

• MIME types
• Character encoding
• Pop up windows
• Alt texts
• Image maps
• Specify image sizes
• Page title
• Use of stylesheets
• Stylesheets dependency
• Redirection
• Default input mode
• Page size limit
• Large graphics
• Caching
• External resources
• Avoid free text
• Structure
• Form submit buttons

A visualization module is also provided. So you can see your site loaded in a handful of popular mobile phones.

Ready.mobi is a quick, simple and cheap way to test your mobile website against many different variables we face as web designers. mobi, mobile, mobile web design, web design, web standards