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Google have recently announced they will soon change the algorithms they use to determine a websites mobile page rank. These changes will penalise webmasters who have not properly considered the increasing legions of mobile users.

Google's recommendations consist of three officially supported configurations

1. Sites that dynamically serve all devices on the same set of URLs, but each URL serves different HTML (and CSS) depending on whether the user agent is a desktop or a mobile device.
2. Sites that have separate mobile and desktop URLs.
3. Sites that use responsive web design, i.e. sites that serve all devices on the same set of URLs, with each URL serving the same HTML to all devices and using just CSS to change how the page is rendered on the device.

All 3 configurations are equally valid. This blog post summarises the important considerations to optimise for end users and search engines.

With the IDC releasing a report showing the tablet market growing in India and the Middle East, this week 51Degrees take a look at device web traffic from emerging markets (based on the IMF listing).

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The CMA Annual Conference 2013 will be hosting talks and discussions around the topic of harnessing the digital economy.

This year James Rosewell, Founder and CEO of 51Degrees will be one of 3 innovative SME speakers to discuss how their businesses have allowed other companies to become successful in the digital landscape.

I've just received a fantastic piece of marketing from EpiServer titled "What Consumers Want From Digital News Publishers". The white paper benchmarks 12 of the UKs leading news publishers, according to the ABCs: National dailies, March 2013, against a set of criteria, including web site mobile performance, for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

I was interested to find out how many of the top performing web sites used server side device detection techniques. Here's my quick and dirty findings.

With an increase in sales for the HTC One, this week 51Degrees revisit the global web traffic from the Sony Xperia Z, Nokia Lumia 920, Blackberry Z10 and HTC One.

James Rosewell, founder and CEO of 51Degrees, will be part of a panel discussing individual data usage at the OMA big data event tomorrow.

Premium Device Detection Data and Lite Device Detection Data is now available to download.

With Tablet traffic on the rise, this week 51Degrees compare web traffic from Android Tablet devices VS web traffic from their Smartphone equivalent.

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