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The Daily Mirror
Content Usability
The UK tabloid The Daily Mirror's mobile site has been completely redesigned. The new design keeps some of the original's visual appeal thanks to the use of lots of color. Content hasn't changed much, a smattering of hard news along with lots of sports, entertainment and "lifestyle" pieces on dieting, beauty, style, health and relationships.

I wish the the developers had been a little more carefully about keeping page size down. Although the Mirror varies image sizes in an effort to reduce page size for phone's that can't handle large pages it's not enough. Phones like the Motorola RAZR V3 and L7, which can't handle more than 20 KB, get a page with 34 links, 13 images and a 44 KB file size, too large to load on these phones. This is reflected in the site's Ready.mobi ratings. On the five point Ready.mobi scale, The Daily Mirror earned a Three (Fair "...will possibly display poorly on a mobile phone.")