{"id":147,"date":"2015-05-27T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T16:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdowen.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2015-05-28T09:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T09:54:09","slug":"internet-trends-report-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdowen.com\/blog\/internet-trends-report-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Trends Report 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At around this time every year, Mary Meeker (business partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers) releases a full insight into current internet usage and mobile trends.<\/p>\n<p>The report was revealed at yesterday&#8217;s Recode Code Conference, and has been embedded below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"405\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/sUM0BRj7Dd2ENC\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To summarise some key points from the report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Internet population has grew by 8% this year.<\/li>\n<li>New Internet users are &#8220;likely&#8221; to access the Internet via a mobile device upon their first visit<\/li>\n<li>In the U.S., 64% of people are online using a smartphone<\/li>\n<li>Mobile subscriptions have grew to 7 billion<\/li>\n<li>Time spent on <strong>mobile devices<\/strong> has grew by a massive 29%<\/li>\n<li>87% of teenagers claim that their phone never leaves their side, whether it be day or night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 28px;\">Overall, the report contains literally hundreds of pages of data &#8211; which is well worth a read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 28px;\">This shows that the Internet is still growing vastly on an annual basis. Moreover, we can see the mobile market beginning to completely dominate much of today&#8217;s Internet usage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 28px;\">Because of this, it&#8217;s important that your website is <strong>mobile friendly<\/strong>. If it isn&#8217;t, there are potentially a lot of people which aren&#8217;t visiting your website because of this,<a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdowen.com\/blog\/responsive-design-important\/\"> especially as Google is now using mobile friendliness <\/a>as a ranking factor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At around this time every year, Mary Meeker (business partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp; Byers) releases a full insight into current internet usage and mobile trends. 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