Hi everybody Paul Wise pointed (thanks!) in IRC to the URL http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.ro/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search.html
about Google changing its rating depending on webpages to be (or not) "mobile-friendly": "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." I've passed the test that they offer to some Debian web pages (did some searches in Google, and then passed the test to the top-1 result of that search), with different results (see below). What to do? I have no idea, sorry. Some comments: * The "Webmaster Tools" that Google offers for a complete report about Mobile usability require to upload an html file to the site. * If you want me to do some more individual tests, please point me to the URLs to check (no idea about which are the most visited pages coming from Google search). Do we have any stats? Can we quickly gather some? (note: the website hit stats used some time ago for prioritizing translations needed DDE service, and DDE is down, RFA. But the tar.gz files pushed to DDE are gathered in some Debian mirror (see http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/get-www-stats ) and we may get them by other way. I'm thinking about adopting DDE but I suppose it will take some time.) * What about other *.debian.org sites and *.debian.net sites? Feel free to forward this message to the places you see convenient. Regards Laura Arjona https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona Results from https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/ OK https://www.debian.org/ https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ https://packages.debian.org/ https://bits.debian.org/ Unknown https://planet.debian.org/ The robots.txt file is not allowed for the requested URL. Not OK https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual The links are too close together https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=wordpress The text is too small to read The links are too close together Is not defined viewport for mobile devices https://packages.debian.org/sid/wordpress The text is too small to read The links are too close together Is not defined viewport for mobile devices https://bugs.debian.org/ The links are too close together The content is wider than the screen https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762194 The text is too small to read Is not defined viewport for mobile devices The links are too close together The content is wider than the screen https://wiki.debian.org/ The text is too small to read The links are too close together Is not defined viewport for mobile devices https://wiki.debian.org/DebianJessie The text is too small to read The links are too close together Is not defined viewport for mobile devices https://lists.debian.org/ The text is too small to read The links are too close together Is not defined viewport for mobile devices https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2015/04/msg00000.html The text is too small to read Is not defined viewport for mobile devices The links are too close together https://search.debian.org/ <<< not sure if this one makes sense The text is too small to read Is not defined viewport for mobile devices The links are too close together -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
