While it's good to know what the mobile website design best practices are, it's just as important to be able to identify bad patterns when you see them.

More than ever before, we're accessing the web from a variety of mobile devices and it's not just when we’re on the go anymore. We're starting to use it when there are computers readily available to us because it's more convenient.

It’s been great to see how much the mobile web has been growing over the last couple of years. However, we’re finding the user experience of a good portion of these sites isn’t optimized for mobile users. Websites have been being built for a long time now, where as the mobile web is still relatively new.

So let’s consider a few mobile web anti-patterns.

1. Not having a mobile site

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