Mobile Usability issue detected

Close up of people using mobile smart phones

I received an email from Google earlier today letting me know that my website had an issue displaying content on mobile devices, so I panicked for and second and quickly pulled out my phone to test.

Everything looked fine, so I dug deeper…

Google Search Console

I logged into Google Search Console and found 1 error: Content wider than the screen

It turns out Google had crawled my website earlier today while I was editing my website and they must have spotted an error.

Google Search Console found 1 error

URL Inspection

Since the website looked fine on my end and had already been updated, I simply retested the live URL.

Google Search Console, URL Inspection

Mobile Usability Results

Testing the URL only takes a few seconds, and the results came back OK.

Thank you Google bots for crawling my site and letting me know about the slight temporary glitch. I’m glad things are fine between us again.

Google Search Console, Usability results

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Mario Seijo

Mario Seijo

Creative Director - focused on helping underserved entrepreneurs launch and optimize their websites.