Questions tagged [mobile]
In the website context, this means sites that are designed to be viewed on devices with smaller screen dimensions than desktops.
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How to see what hosting service(data center) a mobile application uses? [closed]
I found some websites that you can put a URL and see what company provides the hosting service for the website, but what about mobile apps? Is there a way to see this information for them too? How?
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Google Search Console “Mobile Usability issues” but live test shows “Page is mobile friendly”
Looking into a customers site that has been having issues with Mobile Usability issues in the google search console.
Specific issues are:
Clickable elements too close together
Text too small to read
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Old site being loaded on mobiles when on 4G connections
Have deployed a new website for a client to my server a few months ago. The ip address propagated and the new site can be viewed on pc and mobile when on the wifi. When people are not on the wifi, i.e....
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Does Google Search Console respect rel=“nofollow” when doing validations?
I have a 3 links on my site that are throwing failures in the Mobile Usability section of the Google Search Console for:
Text too small to read
Viewport not set
Google has no need to crawl these ...
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What does “Validation looking good” mean from Google Search Console's “fix mobile UX error?”
I had a page with "text too small" mobile UX error. Our dev guy fixed it, and I submitted it to validation with the idea that it will remove the "error" mark. I now have this report though:
I am ...
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Google Search Console emailing “New Mobile Usability issue detected” but live test shows “Page is mobile friendly”
I have a site with 20,000 URLs per language. Each language is added as a separate property in Google Search Console. This month Google started emailing me about each of the properties due to "New ...
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Should mobile sitemaps point to canonical urls
I've recently developed a mobile-friendly version of an old site.
The old site still does really well in the SERPs for key terms, so I don't want to redirect everyone (yet). But I do want to give ...
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Could it hurt our rankings if Google's mobile friendly test says some resources don't load due to “other error?”
Our page passes the Google Mobile Friendly tester, loads in less than 4 seconds in tests on other sites, and loads in 2 seconds in Chrome on iPhone, newest.
Every time we test in the Mobile Friendly ...
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What should we do with URLs that are desktop only from our separate mobile site?
We have a couple of desktop pages that don't have a corresponding mobile version (while the rest of the website does). How do I handle these desktop only pages for mobile devices? Which of the ...
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Content hidden on mobile responsive design
As much as this should have been a well-covered issue, I couldn't find a definite answer to this specific question anywhere.
We run a scientific website which displays lots of well-established data ...
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Google reports mobile issues for directory listing page, will it hurt the rest of my site?
We have some mobile-friendly issues affecting /domains/.well-known/
This page simply displays:
Index of /domains/.well-known
Parent Directory (a link)
pki-validation/ (a link)
Do the mobility ...
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Mobile-Friendly errors from JS/CSS folders in Google Search Console [closed]
Google Search Console is warning me about Mobile Friendly errors. But all the errors are coming from the assets folder where I keep my CSS and JS files. Can anyone can help explain these errors?
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Discus comments cause “clickable elements too close together” in Google Search Console mobile usabality report
I just got an email from Google that they found some problems on my site:
clickable elements too close together
Content wider than screen
I fetched problematic URLs as Googlebot and noticed that it ...
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No “Mobile Usability errors” but indexed pages are not showing in mobile usability report
I recently moved a site from non https to https. All pages have finally been indexed and I don't see any mobile usability errors. However, the number of valid pages shown in the search console ...
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Google de-indexing our desktop site after we launched a separate mobile site with fewer pages
Recently, we launched separate URL site m.example.com for mobile users. That was a mistake because we don't have corresponding pages on mobile for every page on the desktop version. We have fewer ...
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How to define an URL in Article schema on mobile domain
I'm testing the Schema.org Article schema on our site. The problem I encountered is that we serve our content over two different domains (one for desktop site.domain, and site.m.domain subdomain for ...
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Accelerated mobile page(AMP) and password protected admin area, Can I combine both in single page?
Full site being migrating to AMP. I want to integrate admin functionality to AMP pages, like simple links for deleting content, and huge forms(not mobile friendly) for editing content. It will be ...
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Will suppressing breadcrumbs on mobile website work from an SEO perspective?
We have an automobile website with pages in following hierarchy:
Home > Make > Model > Variant
i.e. Home > Audi > A4 > TFS1 Premium Plus
We are showing the breadcrumbs on our desktop page but not ...
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Difference between Android traffic , Tablet traffic and Mobile traffic in google analytics
I would like to know the difference among Tablet traffic, Android traffic and mobile traffic.
Whilst in my opinion Tablets and mobiles can have Android OS, and would like to know the difference among ...
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Google Mobile Usability says “Content wider than screen” even though I can't reproduce that locally and X overflow is set to hidden
Unable to fix error Google Mobile Usability > Content wider than screen in Google Search Console. I have try chrome mobile layout emulator from DevTools, set width to 320px but no horizontal scroll ...
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How to adjust the view port to get a website to display on mobile?
I have been working on an older website, and I was hoping someone could assist me with getting this website to display on mobile.
https://www.technobox.com
I realize this website needs to have a ...
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Is there an advantage for a completely dynamic mobile site opposed to having some pages at separate mobile URLs and some pages dynamic?
We are serving both mobile and desktop platforms through a single domain. In case of mobile, we append /m at end of the domain.
In some cases, pages are served dynamically. Common URL for both the ...
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Dynamic Serving with different url [duplicate]
We have a website math.tutorvista.com.
We use dynamic serving web pages.
Desktop URL:
https://math.tutorvista.com/geometry/analytical-geometry.html
Mobile URL:
https://math.tutorvista.com/...
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JavaScript console errors in Google Search Console - is it still mobile-friendly?
I am seeing mobile usability issues in my Google Search Console report. When I tested the pages they were 'Mobile Friendly' but there were some page loading issues:
page resources couldn’t be ...
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Are there downsides to redirecting of mobile pages to desktop for desktop browsers?
A lot of sites have separate views for desktop and mobile, such as example.com and example.com/m/.
Almost no one redirects desktop users to desktop if they somehow end up clicking mobile link. Is ...
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Omitting “http://www.” from my URL doesn't load the mobile site
I designed and uploaded a site on a mobile format. It shows up fine but ONLY if I type out the http://.
The client wants it to be as simple as possible. How can I have it automatically insert ...
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Google unable to load all page resources which is causing script errors and may be hurting our SEO
We just came to the fact that most of our websites have the same errors, but we don't know how to solve it.
https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly
It looks like some scripts on the websites ...
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Does traffic from mobile applications to website improve website's Google ranking?
There are many mobile applications (like messengers or e-health applications) that can send traffic to websites via advertisement. I wanted to know if this traffic can improve that website's rank (SEO)...
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My site is very old and is intended for desktops but 60% visitors are mobile [closed]
my site is 16 years old and still looks great on a desktop monitor but looking at the statistics 60% of visitors enter my mobile devices my question is there a simple zoom script to mimic the finger ...
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Old Mobile site redundant now main site is responsive
I have an old site which has a mobile.example.com, I finally got around to updating the main site to a responsive version that means the old mobile site is no longer needed.
However I am not sure if ...
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Will it hurt SEO to have mobile URLs that end in “/AMP” when the same desktop URLs don't?
Is having /AMP at the end of the URL for mobile not good for search engines compared to a regular URL?
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Redirect to mobile version with sub domain
I know redirect a website to mobile version such example.com to m.example.com is the best after responsive design but my question is while the desktop URL is example.com/index.aspx and want to ...
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What should be canonical of mobile website?
We have two versions, mobile & desktop with URLs:
http://example.com/
http://example.com/m/
What should be canonical of http://example.com/m/ web page? Should it have canonical as http://example....
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What is the difference between Search traffic and Organic traffic in Google Analysis Mobile App?
There is search traffic and organic traffic in segments in Google Analysis android mobile app. what is the difference between these two traffic types.
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Google only serving m. results despite correct alternate/canonicals
This is for a client site. Google seems to only return mobile results for all search queries. The m. and desktop site are not competing or conflicting with each other however..
All m. pages have the ...
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Why does Google mobile site test say my site is not compressed when it uses content-encoding:br?
I used this Google tool to test my web site.
When I got the report it recommended the following..
Compress resources with GZIP
See how to enable GZIP compression »
When I look at the response of my ...
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Partial content display on mobile devices
I frequently see variations on the following when I'm browsing on mobile devices:
I have two questions regarding the Read More element:
What is the official name for this design technique?
Why do ...
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Mobile friendly or mobile app? [closed]
I have been trying to decide (for some time now) whether to redesign an old CMS website of ours that was built in 2006. It still uses tables and is not mobile friendly.
However we have tested the ...
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Linked desktop and mobile pages- does SEO rank of mobile website even matter?
The question is somewhat similar to this post. The only difference is, we have desktop version as https://www.example.com/ and mobile version as https://www.example.com/m/. The desktop page has mobile ...
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Compare mobile vs. desktop traffic statistics for other websites
Is there any way to discover mobile-versus-desktop traffic statistics for any given website?
I'm currently building a website and it would be incredibly beneficial to me if I could find this ...
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Huge tables won't fit on mobile, can I tell Google the page is desktop only?
I'm working on a product comparison page that is composed of a giant table listing the attributes of a great many products. It's useful on a desktop for those who want to dig into the details of ...
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Fixing “Page is not mobile friendly” report from Google test
In search results google reports "this page is not mobile-friendly". I want to fix this.
when I test my website in the mobile-friendly test, it reports:
Content wider than screen.
Clickable ...
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Is there a benefit to using AMP on already fast mobile sites?
I have a blog that scores 100/100 on page speed insights mobile. It seems like I already follow most of what AMP does like inlining CSS and eliminating JavaScript.
Is there any benefit to using AMP ...
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Mobile Load Time - Compressing JavaScript
Our mobile site's homepage has a load time of 10.72 seconds, which ruins our mobile SEO and therefore traffic. The site is operating on WordPress.
6.8 second of the 10.72 is spent scripting .js files....
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Mobile Usability Error
I don't quite understand how the mobile usability works but it is detecting the problem on the wp-includes path when using wordpress. What can do to stop it?
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Manual testing on Mobile app tracking [closed]
My team is implementing analytics tracking on Mobile App. This app is available in mobile version only. Not a website app.
I want to test the app in mobile devices if the tracking is working properly ...
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Content offscreen to animate in without negative SEO
The design for the mobile version of my site calls for the body text to slide in from offscreen when the user clicks a "Get Started" button.
The problem is that Google considers this to be "content ...
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Robots.txt blocking homepage on mobile SERP's but not desktop
The meta data for the homepage on mobile is stating that the robots.txt file is blocking the page from being crawled.
This is not the case for desktop.
Desktop and mobile have the same domain, we ...
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What rendering engine does Google's PageSpeed and mobile-friendly test use? [closed]
You'd think just "webkit", but the screenshots it shows me (and the issues it finds) are quite different to anything that I've seen via devtools device testing or using actual devices.
Is it maybe ...
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Google Sites defined dropdown items close immedately when used on Android device
I used standard Google Sites definitions for my horizontal navigation bar. The result works as expected on a normal browser on my PC.
The dropdown items "Start the App" and "Serial number ...
