Advantages of Responsive Web Design :
User experience friendly :
- It is specially designed to respond according to user’s or customer’s behaviors and according to screen size, their needs, etc.
- For mobile view it is used to create a website that adjusts smoothly to different screen sizes.
- It becomes easy reach to customers and users on small devices like mobiles, tablets, etc.
SEO friendly:
- In SEO they are generally responsible for ranking at top.
- For mobile device a responsive website loads much faster as compared to a laptop or desktop.
- In SEO it is automatically increases positive user experience that in turn gives a higher ranking to the website.
Increase profit and sale:
- For small devices there is no requirement for another website.
- A responsive website is specially designed to fit all screen sizes.
- While creating website for small devices it can save time, effort, maintenance costs and development.
- It is faster to implement and easy to create.
Low maintenance:
- In various device thereis no change in content and other elements to fit.
- Managing a single website requires less cost, less maintenance, saves time, etc.
Easy to track users:
- Responsive website takes less time to load, money, saves time, save development effort of creating another website for small devices.
Disadvantages of Responsive Web Design:
Slow page loading:
- Sometimes it takes a long time to load the page and they are easy to maintain.
- It requires a lot of time to load some high-resolution images and videos.
Navigation is tough:
- It becomes difficult while maintaining the simplicity of large websites for small devices.
- Small devices have less screen size and more difficult to navigate website.
Time-consuming development:
- They are essential but take a lot of time in the development process as compared to the development time of normal websites.