How to tell whether a site is adaptive or responsive

As most SEOs are aware by now, there are three main techniques for serving mobile website content: responsive design, adaptive design (also called dynamic serving), and separate mobile URLs. While it’s easy to identify separate mobile URLs just by looking at your browser’s address bar, telling responsive and adaptive sites apart can take a little more digging around. In my mobile workshops with Shari Thurow at SMX West and SMX Advanced earlier this year, many of the participants were confused as to how to tell responsive and adaptive mobile configurations apart. So, I went through the exercise that I’m going to describe today. Hopefully, it will help some of you make the distinction. If you’re not sure if the site you’re looking at is responsive or adaptive, ask yourself these questions: Does it change shape when you resize your browser from a desktop computer? Responsive sites are meant to change layout based on browser window size (regardless of device), while adaptive sites Search Engine Land Source

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