How much of your personal homepage traffic comes from a phone? For most people the answer is more than seventy percent, while nearly all the design time goes into checking the desktop preview.
## Look at the real numbers first
The traffic pattern for a personal homepage is different from a large site. Visitors arrive from a link on a social platform, phone in hand, standing in a queue or lying in bed. Desktop visits come from two situations: you checking your own page, and a potential client looking at you in a formal setting.
Both matter, but the proportions are far apart.
## Responsive protects the content, not the layout
Many people read responsive as "it shrinks on small screens". That is scaling, not responsive design. Real responsive work guarantees that at any width, the most important content is still the first thing you see.
## The three places phones break first
1. Too much in the first screen. A bio, avatar and links laid out in two columns on desktop will stack into three screens on a phone. Visitors who cannot see the point in screen one leave.
2. Touch targets that are too small. A button that feels comfortable with a mouse is a source of mis-taps on a phone. A thumb covers far more area than a pointer.
3. Images without size adaptation. A banner that looks good on desktop gets cropped in half on a phone, or slows the load to a crawl.
## One check that tells you more than any tool
Open your homepage on a real phone with WiFi off, using mobile data once. You will see what visitors see: load time, first-screen content, and whether the buttons are easy to hit. A desktop browser emulator will not tell you any of that.
## FAQ
**Do I need a separate mobile version?** No, and it is a bad idea. One responsive codebase covers every width and costs less to maintain.
**How small can body text go on a phone?** Never below 16 pixels. Under that, iOS zooms the page automatically and the layout breaks.
**How many image sizes do I need?** At least two: one for phones, one for desktop. Use srcset and let the browser choose.
Look at your homepage again from a phone. Open a page on dynamic-profile.shop and you can verify it immediately.