Does anyone know if Google ranks a responsive site, or a specific mobile site higher than each other?

[Fasthosts]

I have heard that Google favors specific .m sites overs responsive designs in it's rankings. Does anyone know if this is true? And, if there is any supporting information.

I have been in contact with our account team at Google but haven't had a response on this as yet.

I appreciate any help on this.

Cheers!

[JarnoNijzing]

Fasthosts,

for as far as i know and tested i never noticed a difference in the two in the SERPs. That of course doesn't mean that there is not difference but the one true way to find out is test and test and test it. For as far as I have tested this I found that Google not specifically favors .m sites over responsive but maybe on Google mobile search they will. As far as the original Google is concerned I do not believe that there's an advantage.

my 2 cents

regards

Jarno

[Asher]

Google has actually stated that they primarily prefer responsive sites over mobile sites mainly because it provides a better user experience, and they don't have to index the sites separately.  In terms of ranking, not sure, but where I work, we have gone with responsive design. Even though it takes longer to code, the functionality of the site remains the same.

I hope that helps, and I have included where google talks about its preference for responsive design:

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/06/recommendations-for-building-smartphone.html

[irvingw]

Google will also take page speed into account as a factor on ranking sites in mobile search since a faster load time means better user experience on a mobile device.