Is a responsive theme now the new standard?

[Maria]

With the popularity of hand held devices, a lot of people use mobile phones or tablets to access websites. Therefore, your website needs to be responsive to adapt to the screen size of the device used

 

[Ja sa bong]

Yes, they are. Since it's Google that helped to push it forward, sites that doesn't have or make use of mobile responsive themes are penalised. This paved way for more attention to be given to its usage.