Mobile Site Or Mobile App: Which Should You Build First? (Infographic)

Posted on Aug 7 2012 - 8:27am by CONTRIBUTOR

Editor’s Note: Guest Author Pradeep Yadav, a technology lover, analyzer and  love reporting about different technologies.

Your company needs to go Mobile, but how? With a veritable app gold rush taking place, it’s hard not to be tempted to derive right into development. Should you develop a mobile app or devote your resources to optimizing your website to be viewed on mobile? A look at the strengths and weaknesses of each might help you decide.

Mobile apps trump entire web (mobile and desktop) in term of how much time users spend with each. According to comScore and Alexa data compiled by Flurry Analytics, mobile apps are taking up a greater share of users’ time each day compared to mobile and desktop web usage, which was dominant just two years ago.

The difference sounds interesting, but in order to give you better idea, our friends at MDG Advertising comes with an infographic representing which one to opt for among both: Mobile site or Mobile app.

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