Smartphones are dominating these days the online marketplaces. This means that tremendous turnaround to smartphones and mobile devices to do things
that can be done normally on desktop or laptop, like checking
and sending email and viewing web content. That’s why it’s almost a must
now to pay more attention to how your website looks on mobile devices.
Yes, this does just add one more thing to the list of ways that web
designers have to test their work, but thankfully their are tools out
there to make our lives a little bit easier.
So here are 7 useful tools for mobile website testing.
iBBDemo2 is an Adobe Air application that does a good job of emulating the iPhone and iPad web browsing experience. It can be a useful tool for testing Web apps targeting the iOS family of mobile devices. It can also be useful for doing presentations to demo iOS Web apps if you don’t have access to a Mac.
So here are 7 useful tools for mobile website testing.
iBBDemo2
iBBDemo2 is an Adobe Air application that does a good job of emulating the iPhone and iPad web browsing experience. It can be a useful tool for testing Web apps targeting the iOS family of mobile devices. It can also be useful for doing presentations to demo iOS Web apps if you don’t have access to a Mac.
mobiReady
The mobiReady testing tool evaluates mobile-readiness using industry
best practices & standards. The free report provides both a score
(from 1 to 5) and in-depth analysis of pages to determine how well your
site performs on a mobile device.
Opera Mini Simulator
Opera Mini Simulator, as it’s name suggests, is a live simulator of the
Opera Mini browser. It works just as it would on mobile devices.
iPadPeek
Gomez Mobile Website Readiness Test
Gomez’s free Mobile Readiness Test evaluates how well your site performs
on a mobile phone. Instantly get a score from 1 to 5 based on an
in-depth analysis of 30 proven mobile Web development best practices,
ranging from standards compliant code and style sheet use to caching
techniques.
W3C mobileOK Checker
The W3C mobileOK Checker performs various tests on a Web Page to
determine its level of mobile-friendliness. The tests are defined in the
mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 specification. A Web Page is mobileOK when it
passes all the tests.
iPhoney
iPhoney is not an iPhone simulator but instead is designed for web
developers who want to create 320 by 480 (or 480 by 320) websites for
use with iPhone. It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual
quality of your designs.