According to CMSMagazine , adaptive design has the following disadvantages

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Complex layout (to create adaptability). An adaptive site does not leave the possibility of choosing a version of the site, while from a mobile site you can switch to the full version. A similar problem - adaptive layout cannot be disabled if it hides something important for the user on a smaller screen of a mobile device - only to find a larger screen on which what is needed can be automatically reflected.

A waste of traffic (and money!) for the user who downloads the entire volume of information occupied by the page to their mobile device, but only sees part of it.

Reduction of data transfer speed , which is quite sensitive for some colombia consumer email list relatively "heavy" applications and versions of sites. On the other hand, there are plenty of programs that compress traffic for mobile devices, so even for our Russian mobile users this is not very critical.

The "branded" version of the minuses on Habrе essentially echoes the one just stated, but also complements them considerably. The most important are the following:

Content won't be fully optimized for mobile: Unless you use a mobile-first approach, your site will contain the same information as its desktop sibling. Compare this to a separate mobile site, where you could potentially tailor web page content just for mobile users.