By: John Vinson

Without knowing it, you could possibly be missing out on millions of visitors. That’s potential visitors mind you, not trying to fill your head with impossible scenarios. No, I’m simply trying to convey the important of mobile web. It continues to grow, and with it should be your understanding of how it works and how to optimize for it.

This site has a long list of resources, and tips for how to set your website up for optimal mobile standards. Here are some examples of those tips, and some of them you probably follow already.

- Heading tags are decently supported. However, many devices display some at the same size and weight (e.g. h1 and h2 = identical)

- font-size is almost useless (currently). Consider using headings instead to control font sizing.

- ul and ol are well supported

- Users may browse with images turned off. Always use alt text (which, of course, is recommended practice anyway).

- background-image support is decent at best. However, background-color is somewhat well supported.

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