Check How Mobile-Friendly Your Website Is

Check How Mobile-Friendly Your Website Is

Check How Mobile-Friendly Your Website Is.  Image courtesy of  patrisyu / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Check How Mobile-Friendly Your Website Is. Image courtesy of patrisyu / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Google will soon be labeling websites “mobile-friendly” if they meet certain web-accessibility standards. The purpose of the new label is to help prevent frustration among mobile searchers, who are growing tired of visiting sites with too-small text, difficult-to-tap links, or sites that have to be scrolled sideways to view all the content.

Google started adding the “mobile-friendly” label to its mobile search results last week. To earn the label, Google says a site must meet the following criteria:

  • Software that is not easily viewed on mobile devices (such as Flash) is avoided.
  • The text is readable without the visitor having to zoom in.
  • The site automatically sizes the content to fit the screen, so that visitors don’t have to scroll across or zoom to view the page’s contents.
  • Links are far enough apart so visitors can tap them with ease.

To find out how mobile-friendly your site is, Google offers a Mobile-Friendly Test. You can plug in your URL and you’ll receive a report on how mobile-friendly the page is. This criteria could later be used to determine where your site falls in search results.

“We see these labels as a first step in helping mobile users to have a better mobile web experience,” Google writes in a statement announcing the new labels. “We are also experimenting with using the mobile-friendly criteria as a ranking signal.”

Source: Google