Tools for Testing Your Mobile Sites On Computer

Tools for Testing Your Mobile Sites On Computer

Now a days everyday websites are increasing day by day. Suppose you also make a mobile site and want to test on different types of mobile. Then its not easy to purchase different types of mobile device for testing your website. Hence, we have collected some tools from sixrevisions.com which will help you to test your website on computer only. It will give the exact look as you can see in mobile. So, don't worry proceed and follow the steps, how to do?

1. IPhony - An excellent free iPhone tester, iPhoney isn’t exactly an emulator, but allows developers to create 320x480px websites for use on the iPhone.  It gives you a canvas on which to test the visual quality of your designs. It allows you to test images and code in a pixel-perfect Apple-Safari-powered environment, with all the normal features including Portrait and Landscape modes, fullscreen, zoom and plugins.

2.  W3C mobileOK Checker - This checker is web-based automated validation tools and performs various tests on a Web Page to determine its level of mobile-friendliness. The tests are defined in the mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 specification. A Web Page is mobileOK when it passes all the tests specified in this tool. If you wish to validate specific content such as markup validitation, or RSS/Atom feeds, or CSS stylesheets, or to find broken links, there are other validators and tools also available.

3. iPad Peak - It is also a web-based tool which allow you to see how your websites look when rendered on the iPad. It’s recommended that you use a WebKit-based browser such as Apple Safari or Google Chrome to have as accurate a simulation as possible — or at the very least.

4. Modify Headers Add-on for Firefox - There are add-ons for Firefox that can manipulate the data sent to servers to make it seem as if the user agent is browsing on a mobile device, even when they are not. For this, you need to install an add-on called Modify Headers (for Firefox). Once you have downloaded and installed this add-on, the new options, Tools > Default User Agent and Tools > Modify Headers will appear in your browser. To emulate browsing on a mobile device, you need to find the User Agent Profile (UAProf) value of your mobile device, which can be found with a quick search on Google for "user agent" followed by the model of your phone (e.g. see Google results for "user agent ipad"). Alternatively, check out this list of UAProf values. Once you have located the UA Profile value for the phone you want, enter it into the Modify Header dialog box, and bingo, you will see how it’s like to browse from that device.For Google Chrome, you can try out the User-Agent Switcher extension. For a browser-independent desktop application that works on virtually any internet-enabled app, try out Fiddler Web Debugger that lets you modify HTTP requests, among other things.

5. Adobe Device Central CS5 - As part of the latest Adobe Creative Suite, Device Central emulates the operation of mobile devices on your desktop allowing you to test HTML and Flash from the comfort of your desktop. To open a page or site, select Device Profiles > Browse Devices, then right-click and choose Add To Test Devices. Now that you have added a device, simply go to File > Open (for local testing) or File > Open URL (for remote testing). Though far from being free, if you’re a professional designer or developer, you’ll have a high chance of being able to access Adobe’s creative suite of applications.

6. Google Mobilizer - Google Mobilizer is a simple web tool that lets you input a web page address and then makes the page mobile-web-friendly by trimming the content down to its bare essentials. This is an excellent tool for seeing where you can make performance optimization on your site.

7. Gomez - Gomez mobile readiness test gives you a score between 1 and 5 based on an analysis of over 30 proven mobile web development techniques, ranging from stylesheet use (e.g. media queries) to caching techniques and standards-compliant code. The results are displayed in an easy-to-understand document that offers advice on how to make your site better. Unfortunately, to be able to test your site, you must enter in a bunch of information including your email address, country, zip code, and phone number.

8. MobiReady - In the same vein as Gomez, MobiReady is another online testing site that allows you to enter a URL so that it can perform a set of evaluations, including Page Test, Markup Test and Site Test of the web page. This is a slightly more detailed version of Gomez above and provides a comprehensive test result page including dotMobi compliance, W3C mobileOk tests, device emulators, detailed error reports, HTTP tests and a code checker. However, the results aren’t as succinct as Gomez’s results, a disadvantage when it comes to presenting your information to your less technically astute clients/employers.

9. DotMobi Emulator - The dotMobi emulator gives you a live preview of your site from a (fairly small, to be honest) range of different mobile phones. This mobile testing tool is great if you need to test your page on older mobile devices. What can be annoying to potential users of this tool is that it requires the Java browser plugin for it to work.

10. Opera Mini Simulator - With over 120 million smartphones sold that has Opera pre-installed and an edition available for almost any OS, making sure that your site works on Opera Mini (the mobile version of the Opera web browser) is a good practice to include in your testing workflow. Thankfully, Opera has obliged us by offering a free web-based emulator for testing and evaluating your web design on a mobile device that uses Opera Mini. This tool requires the Java browser plugin to function.

11. KEmulator - It is software based emulator. You can run Java Application which you enjoying in your Mobile Phone in PC using KEmulator Lite. Any web browser you are running in mobile also can enjoy same in PC. KEmulator is a wonderful and easy to use application which provides that feature. KEmulator supports Cookie remembering, File downloading, Page saving, Proxy support and a little setup. It supports different types of devices. It also supports software installation. Hence, for testing your website its a very good environment.

12. MPowerPlayer - It is also a java emulator based on Symbian mobile a very good emulator. To use this emulator you have to download it in your PC. You can install different types of browser in this emulator and test your mobile site.