If you are in the mindset of creating a website to direct your business or to just share your thoughts then you need to read further. Whether you are just a blogger or investing deeply into your website structure and reaching your audience, the fact still remains. To check mobile usability on website is crucial to your success in this venture. For this article we will be looking at how to go about checking and hopefully fixing any user mobility issues that your website may be having. Let us dive right into it.
Checking Mobile Usability on Your Website
In order to properly check your mobile usability you will need to submit your website to Google Search Console. Once you launch search console you should see the below:
Once you are on this page. Simple click “Start Now” and follow the guide. Ensure you submit your sitemap and verify that you are the owner of the website submitted.
Now you will access to all the features included in Search Console. One of which is the ability to access and check your Mobile Usability:
From here you will see issues such as “Text too small to read or Clickable elements too close together”. You can now click on each to get more details and then fix each issue. Once mobile issues are fixed they will move from error to valid. This will be done after your website is crawled by the Smartphone crawler.
You will also see a count of all your valid Mobile-friendly pages at the bottom of your details under status. In the upper right hand corner you will also see the last time your website was crawled relating to mobile friendly functionality. The graph shown will give you a month to month illustration of how your website is doing on mobiles. Thanks for reading and do remember to subscribe to my BLOG.