Your website is hard to read or use on a phone
If people must pinch, zoom and scroll sideways to read your site, it was made for a desktop screen. Most of your visitors probably arrive on a phone, so this is the version of the site they know.
What a phone layout needs
- A viewport tag
- One line in the page tells the phone to use its real width. Without it, the phone draws a desktop page and shrinks it to fit.
- Zoom that works
- Some sites switch off pinch-zoom. That stops people with low vision from making text bigger, and it fails WCAG.
- Buttons a thumb can hit
- Links packed close together get the wrong tap. Phone numbers should be links that dial, and addresses links that open maps.
- Dark mode
- Many phones are set to dark. A site that follows that setting is easier to read at night.
What the free check looks for
The free check reads your front page in a few seconds. These are the results that matter most here.
- No viewport tag, the most common reason a site is tiny on a phone.
- Pinch-zoom switched off in the page.
- No dark mode, so the page stays bright white when the phone is set to dark.
Run the free check. The full review goes through every page for $9.
What you get, and what it costs
- You pay what you think the site is worth, from $100. It is the same site at every price.
- Every account, from the domain to the hosting, is in your name.
- It loads fast, works on every phone, and works with a screen reader and a keyboard.
- No trackers, and nothing about your customers is sold.
- If you want me to keep it safe and current, the care plan is $9 a month. It is optional.
Questions
- My site looks fine on my phone. Is it fine?
- Try it with larger text set in the phone settings, and try to zoom in. Those are the two tests that most often fail.
- Can I fix this without a new site?
- Sometimes a theme setting or one line fixes it. If the layout itself was made only for a desktop, a new layout is the real fix.
- How do your sites handle phones?
- The layout is made for phone, tablet and desktop one at a time, and it follows the light or dark setting of the device.
See what your site needs
Start with the free check of the site you have. If you have no site yet, tell me about your business and I will reply.