How is pixels relevant when font sizes can change?

  • Resolved LilGames

    (@lilgames)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Hi. I am just now exploring this plugin for the first time (prior experience is with Yoast). I just saw in the settings that titles and descriptions are measured in “pixels” of the search display. However, isn’t a pixel measurement inaccurate since you cannot know the size of the browser’s font display? Every user could potentially have changed default settings, and different browsers render slightly differently…

    And what happens when Google, Bing, etc tweak their page layouts?

    Thanks for your time.

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hi @lilgames,

    Google truncates descriptions and titles before they’re sent to the browser, so the browser display settings shouldn’t apply–aside from the requesting User Agent.

    Via CSS, we can perform relative calculations, so the pixel counter should remain correct. I’ll retest this to validate, I didn’t think of zooming in or increasing the DPI settings. Thanks for this ??

    You can test this yourself by changing your browser’s User Agent and then go to Google Search. You’ll get very different results as you switch between mobile and desktop. This is something I still need to tackle and dive further into.

    However yet so, your concern is valid, and it’s affirmed recently by Google. Because of this, I’m going to improve this next release, adding incremental layers. It is an open discussion on GitHub:
    https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/318

    Feel free to contribute your ideas and thoughts on this at that GitHub issue.

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