The mobile revolution has inspired major and minor websites alike to have a mobile version. Mobile versions can be created using themes, extensions, and other modifications.

While developing mobile version, you may want to test it on two, three, or even five different mobile handsets. After development, you are not aware how it will appear in each mobile present on this Earth as you have to buy each of them to test it manually.

Let us make this work simple for you by collecting some tools in this article to test the mobile version of your website.

You can test your mobile website on these tools, analyze it for the mistakes/errors, and then optimize it according to the recommendations. Let us have a look at some of the mobile testing applications available online.

1. W3C mobileOK Checker

W3C tops the list every time you come to the field of website testing. This time also, W3C mobileOK Checker tops the web-based mobile testing tools. You just have to visit its website and enter the URL to test and it will show whether your website is mobile-ready or not, along with what you can do to rectify any errors.

2. Ready.Mobi

Ready.Mobi is a service of dotMobi and an extension of W3C MobileOk Checker Service. It analyzes your website and provide the results in graph format whether the website is optimized well for mobile or not. You can check one web page without registering, but you have to create an account to test the whole website.

3. Google Mobile Testing

Google also has tools for testing your website for mobile. Visit the Mobile Testing site, enter the URL of your website, and press Enter. It will show the website in mobile format and you can check whether it is showing up correctly or not.

4. iPad Peek

Currently, Apple iPad is the highest selling tablet. If you are optimizing your website for mobile, then you should also check its compatibility for iPad (be sure to check your regular site here, not just the mobile version). Visit the iPad Peek website, enter the URL and press enter to show how your website looks on iPad.

5. Test iPhone

With all controversies, Apple iPhone is still one of the best selling smartphones around the globe. Do not miss iPhone testing while checking your website on Android, Symbian, and Windows Mobile platforms. You just have to visit the Test iPhone website, enter the URL and press Enter to do iPhone testing of your website.

6. Gomez

If you’re fed up with testing on emulators and web-based apps and thinking about buying a premium mobile website testing service, go for Gomez as it provides a “Try Before You Buy” option. You just have to fill out a small form and it will send the images captured on iPhone 3Gs, iPad, BlackBerry Storm 2, and Google Nexus One.

7. Opera Mobile Emulator

Opera is one of the best mobile Web browsers available in the market. Almost every Java-compatible handset supports either Opera Mini or Opera Mobile. Opera is also available for iPhone, Android, and Symbian platforms. You can test your website on this mobile browser by visiting its online demo.

8. BOLT Demo

BOLT is another leading mobile web browser. It mainly works on Java-compatible mobiles but the company also plans to launch an Android version. Test your Website on BOLT by using its online demo.

Conclusion

You can use the above tools to check the performance of your mobile website. According to the results, you can modify the website to work better on each platform. We hope that you will find this post helpful.  Do not forget to share your suggestions and comments.

Swapnil Arora is a Technical Writer with xhtmljunction.com, a specialized division of CreativeWebLogix. Xhtmljunction.com provides PSD to HTML conversion within 8 hours.Connect with us on Facebook or Twitter.

Have any suggestions for mobile testing? Any other good apps out there for doing this? Let us know in the comments!

Social media optimization gives you the ability to not waste bullets. Every tweet and status update has a cost associated with it. Perhaps not a direct financial cost, but a real, and at times considerable labor cost.

The time you spend tweeting and Facebooking and Google Plussing on behalf of yourself or your company is time you could be spending on some other form of communications or customer service. Alternatively, it’s time you could be spending watching Project Runway. Or hanging out with your kids. Or making fun of Lebron.

As Charlene Li said – and I routinely steal this line – “social media isn’t inexpensive, it’s different expensive.”

Smart companies are using social media optimization and social media marketing software to add some clarity to the value of their behavior on the social Web.

Getting smarter at social analytics requires three things:

1. A mindset shift on your part about social media optimization

You must embrace the concept that all tweets are not created equal, and there’s value in doing this stuff with additional rigor and analysis.

2. Killer social media marketing software

You need the data ecosystem necessary to make relevant, judicious decisions about your social media behaviors.

I’ve been playing with Argyle Social for a few weeks (they are a Convince & Convert sponsor, so they gave me a free account), and I am hooked. The data they offer is extraordinary, and perhaps more importantly it’s easy to understand and access.

The guys at Argyle come from an email marketing background (like me) so they were raised on a diet of analytics, testing, and identification and isolation of meaningful variables. They are smart, data nerds first, and social media marketing software developers second. And the product is better as a result.

3. A commitment to actually doing something with social analytics data

Just because everything is trackable doesn’t mean you should track everything. The core challenge with social media optimization isn’t availability of data (with the possible exception of Twitter impressions data, as I ranted about here in my social media measurement post).

Instead, the challenge is knowing what the data MEANS, and what to DO about it.

Too many companies in social media tend to misapply breadth and specificity. This results in hand-wringing about the success of a specific tweet, when looking at your social behaviors over a much longer period is far more illustrative. It also results in companies evaluating the success of a particular channel (Twitter and Facebook, in particular), based on aggregate fans or followers, which has almost zero analytical or prescriptive value.

What is useful about good social media marketing software – and Argyle Social in particular – is that it is inherently set up to allow you to understand how your social efforts are trending and progressing by looking at them from a batched perspective.

Here’s an example from their new, free white paper on how to set up social media statistics (check it out, it’s great). In this hypothetical case, a real estate developer builds multiple campaigns to create silted social analytics for his posts about trends, financing, news, and owning a home.

With this type of structure – and goals or conversion events plugged in – you can see important value patterns emerge over time that will help you use your social media marketing resources (most notably, time) more efficiently.

There’s several components of Argyle Social that work well for me.

• The ability to easily curate content using the browser bookmarklet. I can find an interesting blog post, and send it out in about 3 seconds. Argyle automatically attaches rich tracking codes.
• The unified inbox that shows me Twitter @replies, retweets, and DMs plus Facebook comments in one place. This of course is not rare functionality, as several social optimization packages have it, but Argyle Social’s version is as good as any.
• Scheduling of posts in advance is a breeze, even if you have multiple people working together as a team.
• I can create custom tracking URLs in a few seconds, even if they won’t be used in social media, and setting up conversion goals is equally simple (provided you can drop a small piece of code on your website).

Social Analytics Dashboard

But the social analytics dashboard is really the star of the show.

From there, I can at a glance see how I’m trending on clicks, goals, interactions, and subscriberson a week-to-week, month-to-month, or custom date range basis. Then I can drill down to look at specific campaigns, or even individual tweets.

Smartly, Argyle automatically combines the results of tweets and status updates that contain the same link. This is very handy for people that tweet new blog posts more than once (like me).

Knowing which campaigns to set up and what to call them is sometimes a bridge too far at the onset of a social analytics campaign. Argyle Social lets you assign particular tweets to a campaign after the fact, which is very useful for down-the-road analysis.

I’m getting better at social media optimization thanks to Argyle Social. My pal Jason Falls is a big believer too. Take a look at the white paper, and/or check out a free trial. Prices range from $149 to $499/month – there’s also an excellent white label version for agencies.

It’s definitely more expensive (in most configurations) than social media marketing software like HootSuite, but I think it’s worth the investment. If you want to embrace social media optimization – and eventually serious companies will have to – I think you’ll agree that it’s worth the step up.

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TheInterviewr is a new mashup that makes it super, super simple to record telephone interviews online using your existing telephone. It is a dream come true and for now at least - it's free.

The system uses APIs from Twilio and Box.net to let users schedule interviews with contacts, enter notes for the interviews and upload associated files to a central place. Then, when it comes time to do the interview, both parties are sent an SMS to remind them it's about to begin. The person performing the interview clicks a button on TheInterviewr website and both peoples' phones are called automatically. Have a conversation, refer to your notes and documents, then click the same button to end the call. A recording will be available to listen back to immediately. It's like magic.

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"The idea," explains British Columbia based developer Roger Stringer, "was to have a site where journalists / bloggers and anyone else who might conduct interviews (even applies to HR people hiring people), can keep everything organized in one handy place and refer to recordings of the interview later."

I'm sure there are other ways to do roughly this same thing, but this is such a nice, clean, simple, fast service - I was in interview recording mode within 2 minutes of creating a quick account. I'll be testing this over the coming weeks - but it certainly seems like something worth paying for.

Mashing up several services to make functionality like this easy and cheap (or free) is classic Read/Write Web stuff.

Thanks to Doug Coleman for pointing us to it.