Google "Critical Mobile Usability Issues"

  • Resolved dwheitner

    (@dwheitner)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hi! I received a message from Google today stating that a site on which I’m using Make, https://www.davewheitner.com, has “critical mobile usability issues” that may lead to lower Google rankings. These include the following on 16 pages of the site: touch elements too close, and content not sized to viewport. They are mostly blog post pages, with a few of them being image attachment pages. I was under the impression that the theme takes care of proper resizing for elements like featured images for blog posts. I’m also not clear why only some of the posts and image attachment pages are causing such errors
    Please let me know if you need any further information. Many thanks!

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  • Hey there Dave!

    Looks like your site is passing the Google Mobile-friendly test just fine. Did you spend some time cleaning those issues up?

    Thread Starter dwheitner

    (@dwheitner)

    Melissa, Thanks for the response. I’m now looking into a discrepancy between what Google Webmaster Tools and the Google Mobile-friendly test site are telling me. I did just remove some disallowances from my robots.txt so Google’s crawler can render the mobile page fully, and will let you know if I see still issues with either tool after Google recognizes the new robots.txt. I didn’t make any other changes prior to that one just a few mins after reading your response. Thanks! Dave

    Hello,

    I have a similar problem. How did you solve the issue?

    Thanks!

    Thread Starter dwheitner

    (@dwheitner)

    testingWP777,
    From what I can recall, I had to edit my robots.txt file to remove some of the disallowances (don’t recall how I did it, but I remember finding plenty of resources online) that had been preventing google from crawling and indexing my site properly. I don’t know if that’s what actually solved it, but it’s one of the main things I did.

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