How to build a mobile friendly ecommerce website

An ecommerce website or store is said to be mobile friendly if it is easily accessible on all types of views particularly on mobile phones. The design and other internal features of an ecommerce website should align in terms of mobile phone usage. It can be easily understood by imagining that it should be easy for a client to do shopping on mobile phones just as laptop and desktop systems.

The need of making mobile friendly websites for ecommerce stirs has arisen due to a lot of people now using them for all of their household activities. According to some stats from renowned websites, it is stated that about more than 40 percent of people across the globe prefer to use mobile phones for all of their outgoing activities when they feel lazy or want comfort in the house. So it is very important to consider such a fraction of people when designing plans to build a website.

Common tips to make your ecommerce website mobile friendly

In this regard, we have chalked out some ways for you to make your website or ecommerce store mobile friendly and popular amongst the mobile phone users.

Simple and Interactive Design 

The design of your website should be very simple and elegant. At the same time it should be very responsive in terms of viewing it through different mediums.

You have to build your ecommerce website or store compatible with the latest trends and features introduced by user interface and user experience designers. Different e-commerce platforms offer a wide range of themes to make an attractive design. However, to build a e-commerce design from scratch, you need to hire a Shopify development agency.

Enable Voice Search 

Provision of facilities to those who do not know how to write and search. For such people, it is important that the audio features are enabled. This will help people specially of old age group to navigate and search by using audio buttons.

Easy Product Description

Make sure to use easy descriptions so that your user is able to find out his or her desired item and land on the corresponding page.

Optimized Images

The image size being displayed should be adjustable as per the screen of the phone. This is linked with the responsiveness of the website. So the image should be more corrected and in an optimized form

Focus on User Experience 

Avoid ads making announcements related to sales and which product has been sold momentarily. The continued ads popping on the screen proves a headache for the actual buyers and they might leave the website after being irritated.

Improve Website Loading Speed

Keep an eye on the page loading speed. You can use Google page speed insights or Pingdom in this regard to make sure that the website loads and reloads within microseconds.

Clear information on Website

You have to display the information in case of any query very clearly on the mobile view of an ecommerce website. This will help to retain clients and urge them to visit again.

Quality Images on Website 

The images that are displayed should appear on the screen in a proper view and their quality should be very good so as to attract the new visitors.

Add Search Bar to allow Easy Searching

Your clients should be able to easily search for their desired products by using the search navigation bar on the home page. Make sure that search bar is visible on every page of the website you visit.

Previous searches should also appear in the search bar as history so that the client may track down his findings and do comparison

Some Additional Tips to Build Mobile Friendly E-commerce Website

The signup form should not be made necessary ro fill. It should be treated as guest log in like other popular websites. 

If the client fills the form, the UI should be smart to save the information for the next visit and should not bother the customer to re enter his particulars again.

Addition of picture zoom in and zoom out feature,specially when you are to make a cloth shopping based website, would be very helpful in retaining female clients.

-Make sure that the videos for promotional content displayed on the border of your homepage are not played until asked. This irritates the users and compels them to leave.

Conclusion:

So what do you think about the above mentioned list? We are sure it will be helpful for you when you make your own ecommerce based website because the population who uses mobile phones see in bulk. Their presence cannot be denied.