Is Your Website Mobile-Friendly?
We load your page on a virtual phone and check what your visitors actually see: text size, tap targets, sideways scrolling, popups and speed.
Looking for Google's Mobile-Friendly Test?
Google shut down its Mobile-Friendly Test, its API and the Search Console Mobile Usability report in December 2023, and its Lighthouse tool no longer checks text size or content width. Google still ranks the mobile version of your site, though, so those problems still cost you visitors.
This free test runs the same core checks on a real phone browser (viewport, content wider than the screen, text too small to read, tap targets too close together) and adds checks Google's tool never had: popups covering the page, form fields that make iPhones zoom, smaller 360px Android screens, and real-visitor speed data.
Why Mobile-Friendly Design is Essential
Mobile Traffic Dominates
Over 60% of all web traffic now comes from mobile devices. If your site isn't optimized for mobile, you're potentially losing more than half of your visitors to a poor experience.
Google Mobile-First Indexing
Google now uses mobile-first indexing, meaning they primarily crawl and rank the mobile version of your site. A poor mobile experience directly hurts your search rankings.
Mobile Commerce Growth
Most online shopping now happens on phones. Customers expect a smooth experience on a small screen, and clunky mobile sites lose sales to competitors.
Bounce Rate Impact
Visitors who have to pinch, zoom and scroll sideways rarely stick around. A frustrating mobile experience sends customers straight back to the search results and on to a competitor.
What Makes a Site Mobile-Friendly?
A Responsive Viewport
A viewport meta tag tells phones to lay the page out at the screen's width. Without one, phones draw a desktop-width page and shrink it to about 40% size.
Readable Text Size
Body text should be about 16px. Anything under 12px on the phone screen counts as too small to read without zooming.
Touch-Friendly Buttons and Links
Google recommends tap targets of about 48 x 48px. The accessibility minimum (WCAG 2.2) is 24 x 24px with space between neighbors, so a thumb hits the right one.
No Sideways Scrolling
Content should fit within the screen width. Fixed-width boxes, wide tables, embeds and oversized images are the usual culprits.
Common Mobile Usability Issues
- Missing viewport meta tag: the most basic mobile fix, and many older sites still lack it
- Content wider than the screen: fixed-width sections, tables, images or embeds that overflow
- Text too small to read: anything under 12px on screen forces visitors to zoom
- Links and buttons too close together: small, crowded targets lead to mis-taps
- Popups that cover the page: newsletter boxes, app banners and chat bubbles hiding the content on arrival
- Zoom turned off: user-scalable=no keeps people with weaker eyesight from enlarging text
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