{"id":90,"date":"2015-05-03T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=90"},"modified":"2015-08-17T12:41:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T12:41:37","slug":"the-responsive-design-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/the-responsive-design-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"The responsive design mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/responsive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-24 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/responsive.png\" alt=\"responsive\" width=\"325\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/responsive.png 325w, https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/responsive-300x205.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the week this week I updated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torbayfishing.com\" target=\"_blank\">TorbayFishing.Com<\/a> to be more responsive. \u00a0The pages already scaled for mobiles and tablets but I wanted the whole page to scale seamlessly for desktop browsers, no matter the screen-size.<\/p>\n<p>I switched the CSS rules for the structure\u00a0to percentages, tested it across all browsers and uploaded it once I was happy it was working across the board.<\/p>\n<p>Google analytics shows the hits are the same but the revenue from Adsense dropped by a whopping 82%. The ads are responsive so that wasn&#8217;t the issue.\u00a0More people could see all the content and yet the revenue plummeted. I&#8217;ve had to switch back to the old version today and I&#8217;ll be setting up a A\/B test on webmaster tools next week to see if I can track down the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes doing the right thing can have huge consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; During the week this week I updated TorbayFishing.Com to be more responsive. \u00a0The pages already scaled for mobiles and tablets but I wanted the whole page to scale seamlessly for desktop browsers, no matter the screen-size. I switched the CSS rules for the structure\u00a0to percentages, tested it across all browsers and uploaded it once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10,6,11],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infographic","tag-analytics","tag-responsive","tag-revenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}