When you think about your company's websites -- whether internal or customer-facing -- you most likely picture the sites rendered on a computer screen, the environment Web development teams typically target. But there are more than 4 billion mobile phones in use worldwide, more than the total number of TVs and PCs combined, and that doesn't even include tablets. The reality today is your websites are being visited by people using hundreds of kinds of devices, the vast majority of which are mobile.

Delivering content for so many devices can be tricky, especially when you don't know the capabilities of each platform, but today's users don't just want the content to be tailored to their mobile device, they expect it to be. Your job, of course, is to deliver on those expectations.

That's where device detection comes in.

BACKGROUND:  

Although the number of people accessing sites and via mobile continues to grow, a surprisingly high percentage of content platforms still lack device-awareness capabilities. That means companies are serving sites that aren't optimized for the vast range of mobile devices and tablet computers. That also means you are delivering content that is irrelevant to mobile users and, frankly, just looks bad. [Also see: ""]