If you visit a page that isn’t mobile friendly, Google Chrome will now offer users the option to view a mobile friendly version of the page instead.
Joy Hawkins shared a screenshot that shows a non-mobile-friendly page, with a “Make page mobile-friendly” option at the bottom of the page.
When you click the option, it will serve the user a mobile friendly version of the page that is much easier to read on a smartphone.
This showed up on Google Chrome on Android. I couldn’t replicate it using Google Chrome or Google Search App for iOS. But it seems that Chrome made this change earlier this month to give users the option of viewing a mobile friendly page.
This is definitely good for user experience in Chrome. It is definitely annoying when trying to side scroll and read content on a page that isn’t mobile friendly, and this change makes it so a searcher might stay on the site instead of leaving and going to a competitor’s site instead.
Google recently removed the mobile friendly tag from the mobile search results, making it harder for searchers to identify sites that aren’t mobile friendly.
Jennifer Slegg
Latest posts by Jennifer Slegg (see all)
- 2022 Update for Google Quality Rater Guidelines – Big YMYL Updates - August 1, 2022
- Google Quality Rater Guidelines: The Low Quality 2021 Update - October 19, 2021
- Rethinking Affiliate Sites With Google’s Product Review Update - April 23, 2021
- New Google Quality Rater Guidelines, Update Adds Emphasis on Needs Met - October 16, 2020
- Google Updates Experiment Statistics for Quality Raters - October 6, 2020