Using Pirate Metrics to Analyze Your Mobile Application’s Audience
There are over 200 native applications in the federal government with various download numbers. Are the ones with the most downloads the most successful?
MobileGov Community of Practice
Resources on MobileGov Community of Practice
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Eight Principles of Mobile-Friendliness
Following these principles will help you make your site more usable and user-friendly.
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Mobile Development Strategies
The following is a list of the most common mobile development strategies.
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A Guide to Creating Mobile-Friendly Websites
Based on a recent six-month study, this guide outlines the top five practices needed to improve the mobile-friendliness of federal websites: the optimization of JavaScript, CSS, and images, caching, and pop-ups.
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Mobile User Experience Guidelines
These mobile user experience guidelines were distilled from community feedback about mobile UX practices.
News and Events on MobileGov Community of Practice
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How to Create Portable Content with Structured Content Models
Structuring your content for portability across media platforms gives your agency the ability to not only place your message on other properties, but gives you the assurance that your information will always be up-to-date across multiple platforms. This ability is never more important than during an emergency, whether it is a natural disaster or a
4 Tips for Analyzing Mobile Traffic with DAP
It’s not a secret that mobile Internet viewership is booming, but according to a ComScore report released last June, 49% of the audiences for the top 100 digital properties are now mobile-only. Additionally, during the third quarter last year, Gartner reported PC shipments fell 7.7% while IDC Research reported a 10.8% decline. The switch to
Making Your Agency Apps Secure
Security and privacy are part of the six Mobile User Experience Guidelines developed by the MobileGov Community of Practice.
Trends on Tuesday: How Much Does It Cost to Go Mobile?
A penny saved is a penny earned. But spending your pennies on mobile development is necessary to meet 21st century needs.
Trends on Tuesday: The Impact of ‘Mobilegeddon’ on Non Mobile-Friendly Sites
Adobe released its quarterly Adobe Digital Index report this month, which showed websites that aren’t mobile optimized are seeing more than double-digit drops in traffic from Google’s organic search referrals. This is after the leading search engine announced it would start penalizing websites, after April 21st, that weren’t optimized for mobile—also called “Mobilegeddon.” Microsoft’s Bing search engine also
Won’t You Help Your Neighbor? Communities Theme Month on DigitalGov
It’s a beautiful day in the DigitalGov neighborhood, and we want you to be our neighbor: no red sweater required. The strength of digital government depends on robust collaboration across agencies, offices, and disciplines. The virtual federal neighborhood collaborates through numerous communities of practice, each of which promotes the open exchange of ideas and resources.
Start Sleuthing with the Great Federal Mobile Product Hunt
Mobile-friendliness is a must for government. We know there are a number of agencies who have mobile-friendly digital products that we don’t know about, and they deserve their day in the sun. We need your help to find them.
Helpful Resources to Make Your Content Mobile-Friendly
Smartphones make up 75% of the mobile market—which makes mobile-friendliness a must for government agencies. With the recent update to Google’s search algorithm, or what some are calling Mobilegeddon, the case for building a mobile-friendly site becomes even stronger. For many government organizations, responsive Web design (RWD) has been the answer to their mobile question.
Trends on Tuesday: Federal App Development Trends
Mobile apps meet real world needs. App development is not a homogenous process, however. Apple and Android devices are overwhelmingly dominant in device ownership and app development. So, we examined the Federal Mobile Apps Directory for iOS and Android offerings. We noticed a predominance
Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Market Growth Makes Mobile-Friendly a Must
ComScore reported last week that smartphones now make up a whopping 75% of the mobile market. That’s up from 65% just one year ago. This means three-quarters of Americans over the age of 13 now have smartphones, and they are accessing government services with them more and more. This is an undeniable fact because earlier this
Data, Code, and API Event Round Up
DigitalGov University has hosted some great events over the last year in partnership with Data.gov, the MobileGov Community and 18F to bring you information on opening data and building APIs. This month we’ve rounded up the events over the past year so that you can see what’s
Trends on Tuesday: Mobile Web Lessons From the CrowdSource Mobile Testing Program
Practice makes perfect. But in the mobile world, it’s testing that makes products better. For federal agencies that have developed their own apps or mobile-friendly sites, the CrowdSource Mobile Testing Program offers a simple way to collect feedback on compatibility testing. Since the program’s inception in March 2013, eight federal mobile websites (including responsive design)
How Government will Accelerate Anytime, Anywhere Services and Information in 2015
Innovative wearables, stronger wifi and more 3D printing have been among the many projections for the future of mobile in 2015. Whatever comes to pass, we can be certain that the anytime, anywhere user will develop new habits and desires based on new trends. Government must accelerate its customer service approach with anytime, anywhere efforts to keep up. Here’s
Spanish Language Mobile Apps from Gobierno.USA.gov
In mobile app development, if you aren’t making it multilingual, you miss providing anytime, anywhere information and services to important mobile-only audiences. Today, we’re highlighting five Spanish language apps from the Spanish Version of the USA.gov Federal Mobile Apps Directory.
Trends on Tuesday: Phablets Top Tablets in Post-Holiday Activations
Phablets, the popular term for smartphones with screen sizes from 5.5 to less than 7 inches, increased in popularity this holiday season. According to Flurry, 13% of new device activations in December were phablets, jumping from 4% in 2013. Back in October, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicted that “phablets” would outship tablets in 2015.
Trends on Tuesday: The Hottest DigitalGov Mobile Articles in 2014
QR codes, apps about whales, bullying and railroad crossings, challenges of responsive Web design and mobilizing charts and tables were the things you were most interested in this year. We publish mobile trends every Tuesday and feature a government mobile app every Thursday on the mobile channel of DigitalGov. In addition, we do recaps of MobileGov
Trends on Tuesday: Half of Online Americans Don’t Know What a Privacy Policy Is
Federal agencies are required by law to use privacy policies on their digital properties that explain how they use the data they collect about users and visitors. This ensures that these users and visitors know what the government is doing with their data.
Trends on Tuesday: Smartphone Users Still Use the Phone for Talking
Smartphones are changing how organizations do business—they are more than just smart Web browsers. As I noted last week, purchases from mobile phones have dramatically increased during the holiday shopping season. The infographic from IfByPhone demonstrates how people are using
Trends on Tuesday: Speed Matters When Measuring Responsive Web Design Performance Load Times
In the mobile world, every second matters. Mobile users are a finicky bunch. They want their information anytime, anywhere and quickly. As members of the MobileGov Community of Practice have noted last year, mobile user experience is about emotion. If that emotion is not happy, you will lose the user. For this month’s DigitalGov user
