Mobile Usability Issues after Mobile Frist
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Hi All
A couple months ago we got an email from google, telling us - Mobile-first indexing enabled for https://www.impactsigns.com/
Ran the test on MOZ, Mobile usability shows 100%
Last week got an email from google - New Mobile usability issues detected for impactsigns.com
Top new issues found, ordered by number of affected pages:
Content wider than screen
Clickable elements too close together
I can not seem to figure out what those issues are, as all content is visible.
How important are these 2 issues? Since we are now on the mobile first side?
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Make sure, that your company has a really good company website, that works on desktop and also mobile.
We say this, because some web designers, do a really bad job of designing the mobile version, and this can cause a high bounce rate. take a look our summerhouse business, we designed a really good mobile website, so we have reduced our bounce rate, and because the websites so well designed, we get a lot of enquiries from customers.
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According to a Google post on their webmasters blog the mobile-first indexing is more about how they gather content and not necessarily about how content is ranked.
I ran your website through Google's Mobile-Friendly Test and everything looks fine. You can check it out here for you: https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly.
However, when I ran the mobile test I noticed you are blocking a few content resources within the robots.txt file. I'd update that so Google can access the /wp-content/ folder and properly index images within that folder.
Back to the mobile issue, personally I don't believe those two issues will be too impactful unless it is impacting the overall user experience.
I hope that helps some.
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