Consumers Relate Mobile Web Site Woes: Two Out of Three Report Having Problems in the Last 12 Months

Gomez, Inc., a leader in Web application experience management, recently published key findings from an independent study examining consumers' mobile Web experiences and expectations, conducted by Equation Research on behalf of Gomez. The full report is entitled "Why the Mobile Web is Disappointing End-Users." The survey of 1,001 mobile Web users found that:

• Two out of three have encountered problems when accessing Web sites on their mobile phones in the last 12 months
• Slow load times were their number one issue, experienced by almost 75 percent of them
• More than half reported that the Web site content was either too large or small for the size of their mobile phone's screen.

The survey revealed how unsatisfactory mobile Web experiences can negatively shape a consumer's opinion of an organization. It also discovered that mobile Web users do not have much patience for retrying a Web site that is slow or not functioning. In the survey:

• 85 percent of consumers said they are only willing to retry a mobile Web site two times or less if it does not work initially
• More than half are unlikely to return to a Web site that they had trouble accessing from their phone, and
• 40 percent said they'd likely visit a competitor's mobile Web site instead.