Mobile and tablet now gets more usage than desktop

Mobile and tablet usage across the StatCounter network has exceed desktop usage for the first time in October. We issued a release about this on our Global Stats site this morning.

It has never been more important to check and make sure your website is mobile friendly. Google released a tool to do that here.

To see the breakdown of desktop vs mobile and tablet usage for your own website simply click “Browsers” and then “Platforms” from the left stats menu. Here is an example of how it looks:

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154 Comments

  1. It has never been more important to check and make sure your website is mobile friendly. Google released a tool to do that here.

    To see the breakdown of desktop vs mobile and tablet usage for your own website simply click “Browsers” and then “Platforms” from the left stats menu. Here is an example of how it looks:

  2. It has become an industry standard to put “mobile first” when designing for the mobile web and while this is, in general, a good thing – it has also left to a neglect of the tablet platform in mobile design. There are clear differences between smartphones and tablets and key differences in the way that users interact with them. It’s important for us – as UX designers – to understand these differences so that our designs can satisfy both sets of users.

  3. Mobile and tablet usage across the StatCounter network has exceed desktop usage for the first time in October. We issued a release about this on our Global Stats site this morning.

  4. A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency carrier while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

  5. Mobile is very easy and comfortable to use and we can use mobile anywhere and anytime but desktop we cant use anywhere.

  6. todays we can carry mobile phone everywhere not a desktop .it isvery easy to carry mobile phone.

    1. earlier also mobiles were easy to carry but why it is increasing nowadays so fast, it’s all thanks to Android OS which Google made available its billion of dollars OS for free.

  7. People need portable tech which they can carry around. Mobile and tablet provides you with that functionality

  8. It has never been more important to check and make sure your website is mobile friendly. Google released a tool to do that here.

    To see the breakdown of desktop vs mobile and tablet usage for your own website simply click “Browsers” and then “Platforms” from the left stats menu. Here is an example of how it looks:

  9. Becoz it is easy to handle it.. it is portable that’s way Mobile getting place on Desktop..

    1. what do you think about mobile’s portability sometime ago at the times of symbian, Java, blackberry and other OS.

  10. todays lyf mobile and tablets are using more than desktop bcoz we cant carry our desktop but we carry oour mobile and tablets in our pockets..

  11. My prediction, on June 2017 the result will be:
    75% – Mobile and tablet
    25% – Desktop

    1. I think desktop usage will be limited to only professionals in companies, banks,etc. and if Google launches desktop version of Android then Microsoft may need to think again about Windows.

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