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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: U.S. Mobile-Only Internet Users Now Outnumber Desktop-Only Users |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Trends on Tuesday: U.S. Mobile-Only Internet Users Now Outnumber Desktop-Only Users",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: U.S. Mobile-Only Internet Users Now Outnumber Desktop-Only Users","summary" : "Just a week after the ‘Mobilegeddon’ shift in Google search engine rankings to favor mobile-friendly sites, comScore released a research report citing that the U.S. had reached a new inflection point—there are now more mobile-only Internet users than desktop-only. What’s even","date" : "2015-05-05T11:00:36-04:00","date_modified" : "2024-07-10T08:44:18-04:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/snyk-fix-08ac0319715b31f28b1a7897cd249f39/content/news/2015/05/2015-05-05-trends-on-tuesday-u-s-mobile-only-internet-users-now-outnumber-desktop-only-users.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-u-s-mobile-only-internet-users-now-outnumber-desktop-only-users","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/snyk-fix-08ac0319715b31f28b1a7897cd249f39/2015/05/05/trends-on-tuesday-u-s-mobile-only-internet-users-now-outnumber-desktop-only-users/","content" :"\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2015/05/600-x-369-comScore-Single-Platform-Users-Share-of-Total-Digital-Population_reference.jpg\"\n    alt=\"comScore graph showing Single-Platform Users Share of Total Digital Population\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust a week after the \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/snyk-fix-08ac0319715b31f28b1a7897cd249f39/2015/04/15/mobilegeddon-government-edition/\"\u003e‘Mobilegeddon’ shift in Google search engine rankings to favor mobile-friendly sites\u003c/a\u003e, comScore released a research report citing that the U.S. had reached a new inflection point—\u003ca href=\"http://www.comscore.com/Insights/Blog/Number-of-Mobile-Only-Internet-Users-Now-Exceeds-Desktop-Only-in-the-U.S\"\u003ethere are now more mobile-only Internet users than desktop-only\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat’s even more interesting is the drop desktop-only usage has taken over the past one-year period. comScore sites:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust a year ago, there was still nearly twice the percentage of desktop-only internet users (19.1 percent) as mobile-only users (10.8 percent). While the share of mobile-only users has climbed over the past year to 11.3 percent, the desktop-only population has drastically declined to just 10.6 percent. Of course these numbers also tell us that the vast majority of the digital population (78 percent) is multi-platform and goes online using both desktop and mobile platforms.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile desktops won’t disappear anytime soon, especially for highly complex tasks, mobile and tablet devices are clearly becoming the primary tool for audiences to interact with the Internet and \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/snyk-fix-08ac0319715b31f28b1a7897cd249f39/2015/03/10/trends-on-tuesday-more-time-consuming-complex-tasks-on-mobile-platforms/\"\u003ethey’re growing more comfortable with complex tasks on the smaller, touch interfaces\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo, government agencies should \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/snyk-fix-08ac0319715b31f28b1a7897cd249f39/2015/04/30/mobile-friendly-park-websites-on-nps-gov/\"\u003ejoin our friends at the National Park Service\u003c/a\u003e and get \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/snyk-fix-08ac0319715b31f28b1a7897cd249f39/2015/05/04/helpful-resources-to-help-make-your-content-mobile-friendly/\" title=\"Helpful Resources to Make Your Content Mobile-Friendly\"\u003emobile-friendly fast\u003c/a\u003e. If your organization is not already moving swiftly to prepare for a \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/snyk-fix-08ac0319715b31f28b1a7897cd249f39/topics/mobile/\"\u003emobile-first\u003c/a\u003e and mobile-majority audience, it’s time to start immediate plans to prepare for the future because in many ways, it’s already here.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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