By the end of 2010, we forecast that the mobile touch web will have grown to more than 500,00 and to one million sites by the end of 2011.
Steve Ives, CEO of Taptu
There seems to be no stopping the trend, or is there?
With its 10-inch screen, the iPad has the potential of slowing the development of mobile websites and bring back traditional desktop ones. The reason: Traditional websites look great on the iPad. Website browsing is the reason the iPad was developed in the first place. “iPad offers the best Web browsing experience there is-way better than laptops," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Taptu's 750 servers regularly crawl some 220 million websites and, by piecing together certain characteristics such as the amount of words and links on a page, can identify whether or not a website is a mobile one made for touchscreens. Taptu can also crawl native iPhone apps that tap the Web.
Moreover, mobile web content makes it tricky for traditional search engines to ply their trade. “Algorithms on the desktop web fall apart on the mobile web," Ives says.
Less than two years ago, Taptu's servers found only a few thousand mobile touch websites. The birth of the App Store in the summer of 2008 caused a massive spike in mobile touch website development, as the number of mobile websites surpassed 300,000 in 12 months.
Recently, Taptu has unearthed trends in the areas of mobile website growth.
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