Take the New Google Website Mobile Test – Pass or Fail?
Is your website mobile friendly (according to Google)?
Google has announced:
“Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results. Consequently, users will find it easier to get relevant, high quality search results that are optimized for their devices.”
You can immediately test your site to see if Google considers it “mobile friendly on the Google tools page of:
It will immediately give you a PASS/FAIL score for your website or website URL page.
I decided to take the Google mobile test for the Internet Software Sciences website which is purposely designed using a responsive Word press theme that should be mobile friendly. My first test reported a failure but my second test gave a thumbs up PASS result so I’m not exactly sure how Google will rank my site’s mobile friendliness in about a week!
There has been considerable discussion on web developer groups like Search Engine Journal that identify many flaws and potential issues with Googlle’s tool and algorithm. For example, what if you offer separate but similar mobile and full screen browser versions of your website and content? Do you get de-ranked for your full screen version?
I also ran the google mobile friendly test on Customer+Mobile and Tech+Mobile applications and both of those applications immediately passed the mobile test!
If your business or operations depends upon good Google SEO ranking of your website, you might be in for a wake up call or a surprise boost come April 21, 2015!
Take the Google Mobile Test and see what happens. If you have comments, please feel free to add them to our blog with this blog posting.