47
votes
Accepted
Why does my IP address become Google's IP address when using Chrome on the mobile?
You have Data Saver turned on in the settings of Google Chrome. It proxies all your HTTP (not HTTPS or incognito) traffic through an optimisation server at Google to make the pages smaller.
- 676
5
votes
Fixing "Page is not mobile friendly" report from Google test
In my experience the Google tool is just not smart enough to figure out clever CSS or other techniques you may have used to make your screen mobile-friendly. For example, I have had tables which ...
- 51
5
votes
Accepted
Why does Google mobile site test say my site is not compressed when it uses content-encoding:br?
Compress resources with GZIP
This is another one of those things where new technology is being shoved into our faces and some companies and/or tools aren't setup to handle it (such as the Google page ...
- 13.6k
5
votes
Accepted
Google Mobile Usability says "Content wider than screen" even though I can't reproduce that locally and X overflow is set to hidden
I have remove all "position: absolute" from classes. But that classes were assigned to hidden content what fit fine on smallest smartphone screen, also most of them were not connected to any page ...
- 605
4
votes
Universal shortened doctype for all mobile devices
The XHTML doctype is for XHTML web pages and, unless you are serving your page as application/xhtml+xml, it ain't XHTML. I'm betting you're not doing that.
Writing HTML as XHTML is called "tag soup" ...
- 4,633
4
votes
Accepted
One website for desktops and one for mobile in the same domain
It's called adaptive web development. You need to detect the user-agent and serve different markup based on the device.
In PHP, you can use $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'].
You'll want to include this ...
- 186
4
votes
Comprehensive guide for Mobile Display / Resolution
For responsive purposes, you can use the devices resolution conventions:
By using these dimensions, you cover a maximum of devices.
- 10k
4
votes
Accepted
Are there downsides to redirecting of mobile pages to desktop for desktop browsers?
Bidirectional redirects are good user experience
I would go ahead and implement the redirects, it seems like good user experience to me. I suspect that it isn't always done because:
Mobile sites ...
- 98.3k
4
votes
Accepted
How to define an URL in Article schema on mobile domain
You say:
when you're on site XYZ, the URL most probably should point to XYZ.
However this is not quite accurate, as it misunderstands the semantic meaning of the url property in Schema.org ...
- 15.8k
4
votes
Accepted
Could a specific website be blocked or throttled for all users by Verizon
It is definitely possible for Verizon to do this.
The rest if this answer can only be speculation -
Especially if you are using HTTPS , and your site is "not dodgy" look at your hosting ...
- 7,640
4
votes
Accepted
How to stop automatic download of PDF in mobile browser
buxik's answer from How to display a PDF via Android web browser without "downloading" first looks like a good solution:
You can open a file PDF in Google Docs Viewer by appending the URL ...
- 98.3k
3
votes
Accepted
Google trimming first few words on mobile
Looks like this was because of Google experimenting something. Today when searching with the same keyword Google displays the description as expected, everything shown from beginning and trimming last ...
- 111
3
votes
Does mobile site need SEO while desktop site already does it?
There are a few different answers to your question so I'm going to answer it assuming 2 things are true:
You're talking about non-visible SEO (i.e. description tags, open graph tags, Twitter card ...
- 862
3
votes
Accepted
Is there a benefit to using AMP on already fast mobile sites?
AMP's biggest performance improvement is its ability to lazy load images and ads. From https://github.com/ampproject/amphtml/blob/master/spec/amp-html-format.md:
HTTP requests necessary to ...
- 98.3k
3
votes
Compare mobile vs. desktop traffic statistics for other websites
ANY: No.
You need to have control on the website.
Having said that, tools like semrush, can give you some insight on competition but not quite exact data about mobile vs desktop.
- 3,173
3
votes
Google unable to load all page resources which is causing script errors and may be hurting our SEO
When you use this test, note that many ad tracking pixels/scripts (even Google's pixels and Doubleclick's pixels (Google owns Doubleclick)) may be blocked by their own robots.txt file that you cannot ...
- 183
3
votes
Accepted
Page not "mobile friendly" because style sheets won't load properly, what can I do?
The most common cause for this problem is that Googlebot can't read the style sheets even though users can read them. Check to make sure that your robots.txt file doesn't disallow your style sheets.
...
- 98.3k
3
votes
Accepted
Google Search Console errors occuring and disappearing all the time
This is fairly common, however, the frequency that you are experiencing it is not.
I manage SEO for a lot of websites, and only see this come up every once in a while. I hit "validate fix" ...
- 6,221
3
votes
Accepted
Do all my pages need to be mobile friendly?
Google evaluates mobile-friendliness on a page by page basis, not for your site as a whole. Having some pages that are not mobile-friendly will not hurt the rankings of your mobile-friendly pages.
- 98.3k
3
votes
Google Mobile Friendly Tester Issue - Preview Shown Is Very Small
I suspect that it is because your <body> element doesn't have a width set.
Try adding:
body {
min-width: 100%;
}
If that doesn't change anything (despite poor it being poor practice):
body {...
- 6,221
3
votes
How to stop automatic download of PDF in mobile browser
This is by design. Each app does one such function.I dont think its possible.
There is nothing you can do on your website. There may be browser that hss this function. But the common ones don't do ...
- 2,231
2
votes
Is it important to add a mobile sitemap?
John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, stated in April 2015:
you don't need - and shouldn't have! - a mobile sitemap if your site doesn't have a feature-phone (WAP/WML, etc) version. If ...
- 121
2
votes
What is the use case for Fax links in a webpage?
You can just provide a link with GET variables to a third party pay-as-you-go fax service (i.e. like paygofax.com) that allows GET variables to populate.
For example:
<a href="https://www....
- 29
2
votes
Accepted
How does the Media Query apply to smartphone resolutions?
There is a difference between the physical pixels that iPhone 6 plus can display and the screen size. Screen size is the pixel size that affects your CSS media query.
IPhone 6 plus has screen size of ...
- 206
2
votes
Is it official that I can't have any ad unit above the fold on my mobile site?
Google does not publish clear guidelines about how much ad space is acceptable above the fold for organic search engine rankings. I really wish Google would do so. The best guidance we have gotten ...
- 98.3k
2
votes
Accepted
wrapping web site
Using hosted web app solution, you can easily wrap any existing website and create Widows App.....So I can create many hosted apps, ad some ads and put in apps stores. Do I need some agreement with ...
- 13.6k
2
votes
Does bootstrap hidden-sm effect SEO consequences
Google does not punish sites with hidden elements, in fact its been like this for several years. Nowadays Google is much smarter than it was a decade ago, their bots are able to understand a great ...
- 32.9k
2
votes
Accepted
Can 'crumbs' in a long line of breadcrumbs (using Schema.org) be removed for smaller screen sizes?
It's actually very common to see sites using display: none on elements that do not render correctly on smaller screens. Not hiding breadcrumbs unless addressed can actually harm your mobile ranking ...
- 32.9k
2
votes
Accepted
Is having multiple index files for various devices bad SEO?
While exposed index files isn't a URL-friendly approach, your idea of redirecting to a specific index file based on what the client's device is actually a fabulous start because then search engines (...
- 13.6k
2
votes
What is the current practice for mobile domains?
The best practice is making your website responsive, where it alter the content shown using css file/files.
Having a m. subdomain do a serious hit on your domain authority. Having all in one singe ...
- 144
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible