How do I know if my website is mobile friendly?

Some websites recently built in the past few years are already mobile friendly.

So, if you have doubts and are wondering whether your website is mobile friendly,  Google has a tool to help.  

Indeed mobile friendly sites qualify for Google’s new mobile-friendly labels or be ready for a potential mobile-friendly ranking boost? 

The new tool is at google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly and it basically gives you a pass or fail grade.

Either it tells you that you are mobile friendly or you are not mobile friendly.

The messages I was able to generate included:

Fantastic.  This page is optimized for mobile devices.

Google will give more information such as:

Reasons why this page is not mobile friendly:  
*Text Too small to read
*Mobile viewport not set
*Links too close together

However, it will also give advice on how to fix the problems.


Obviously, sites that fail the test, will not get a mobile-friendly label in the mobile results.

Here is a screen shot of a typical website that failed the test!

This website uses Flash, hence the black screen on the top of the mobile device and that is exactly how you would see it when calling up this website if using any of the apple mobile devices.

So, checking to see if your website is mobile friendly is not a bad idea after all.  Here is the link again:
 
​​https://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

Perhaps you owe it to your clients anyway to have a mobile friendly website!