Mobile First IPVM Launched
By John Honovich, Published Mar 09, 2016, 12:00am ESTThe new IPVM is mobile first, built for using IPVM on your phone, replacing our previous bad mobile experience.
We spent the last 3 months rebuilding the IPVM site, all of the reports, discussions, member management, and most of the tools to deliver an outstanding experience for phone and tablet users.
IPVM had 30% of our ~150,000 monthly visits come from mobile devices, even with our previous bad site. We are confident that the new mobile first site will make using IPVM far more enjoyable.
Site Comparisons
The image below compares the 2 old IPVM versions when viewed on a phone compared to how the new IPVM works:
Responsive Design Implemented
Like most websites today, the site uses a responsive design, allowing it to gracefully adapt to different screen resolutions and devices sizes, demonstrated below:
Much Faster Loading
In addition, IPVM is now loading much faster, which should help all users, mobile or desktops. Indeed, we have another 2 loading optimizations steps in queue for later this month.
What Do You Think?
Let us know, especially if you have any questions or ideas for improvements.
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Comments (26)
Looks great and much easier to post comments on mobile.
Looks great John - kudos to all involved!
Why is everything so large now on PC? Maybe worked for mobile but PC version is making me scroll, scroll, scroll....
03/10/16 03:11pm
Super sharp. Much better mobile experience - especially for comments.
Looks great John.
One thing that seems to be missing that I found useful on the old site was the dropdown list of manufacturers: was a great reference and quick-link to info. Yes, easy enough to search but sometimes having the list prompted searches for info on others. Any chance of this - or even a page showing companies covered by IPVM content - returning?
One thing I just noticed is when I'm on the site with my iPad though Safari, the menu bar on the left side of the screen covers up site. I can't get the page to re-size with menu.
Steve, sorry. That's a bug and we have had a few people report it today. We are looking for a fix, it seems to happen on some iPads but not all so we are checking if it is a variance across versions. We'll update when fixed. Thanks.
Steve, thanks.
3 minutes ago, we confirmed it is an iOS 8.x issue. So upgrade your iOS, we ain't fixing it.
Kidding :) Hopefully, we will push a fix tonight if not midday tomorrow morning once we determine the difference in iOS 8 (vs 9) causing this.
Minor annoyance...
I liked that the IPVM logo was always at the top for easy access to the home page. Now, if you scroll down, the menu hides. You have to scroll up to see it.
Is anything iOS considered mobile?
03/12/16 04:09pm
Great work! Much appreciated here!
Seemingly related to this change is a (partially?) non-functioning quote feature. For example, when I posted this yesterday:
...the first and third paragraphs were quoted, but don't show as quoted. I even edited to ensure the paragraphs were set as quoted. Yet "U2's" reply to me today appears to quote properly.
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On a separate note, the video autoplay has to go. Every time I go to the article above this voice starts coming out of my speakers and I have to scroll endlessly to find the video and pause it. Oof... and it keeps on auto-playing the next video...
Thank you for the return of the "show newest first" button. I missed it
