Google thinks site is not mobile friendly

  • Hi!
    When I activate Autoptimize on my site and use the standard settings in Autoptimize Google search console thinks the site is not mobile friendly anymore (although the site looks mobile friendly for the visitor and loads fast). I had to deactivate Autoptimize since google punishes my SEO if Google thinks the site is not mobile friendly. What should I do? (I’m using the Salient theme, the host is Kinsta)
    All the best,
    Magnus

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  • Plugin Author Optimizing Matters

    (@optimizingmatters)

    Interesting (and somewhat unexepected really), let’s go through some questions:
    * what errors/ recommendations does Google Search Console list when AO is active?
    * do you see similar “opportunities” in Google Pagespeed Insights?
    * what happens if you disable just CSS or just JS or just HTML optimization?
    * what is your site’s URL?

    frank

    Greetings,

    A nice plugin, got me up to 100 Lighthouse rating at one point. Thanks for the hard work.

    Short story: I disabled the JS and the site went from mobile unfriendly to mobile friendly.

    Long story: A routine server side security scan showed potentially malicious code in the autoptimize JS cache. I ran a scan from Google’s Search Admin and it showed that it was clear. Anyway, I manually deleted the cache file. And re-ran the scan. There was apparently no malicious code on the server that it found. As a precaution, thinking that maybe something unknown was injecting into the autoptomize JS cache, I disabled just the JS. Ran the Google search admin scan again and checked for any security flags and once again, it didn’t find anything. But oddly enough the page changed from mobile unfriendly to mobile friendly. Anyway, it’s a shame to lose the speed gain from the optimized JS, but the boost to google ranking is hard to give up as well.

    Anyway, just thought I’d let you know.

    Thanks for he plugin.

    Regards.

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