X
    Categories: GoogleMobileSEO

Site Not Mobile Friendly? Google Offers Mobile Friendly Version of Page in Chrome

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.

The following two tabs change content below.

Jennifer Slegg

Founder & Editor at The SEM Post
Jennifer Slegg is a longtime speaker and expert in search engine marketing, working in the industry for almost 20 years. When she isn't sitting at her desk writing and working, she can be found grabbing a latte at her local Starbucks or planning her next trip to Disneyland. She regularly speaks at Pubcon, SMX, State of Search, Brighton SEO and more, and has been presenting at conferences for over a decade.
Jennifer Slegg :Jennifer Slegg is a longtime speaker and expert in search engine marketing, working in the industry for almost 20 years. When she isn't sitting at her desk writing and working, she can be found grabbing a latte at her local Starbucks or planning her next trip to Disneyland. She regularly speaks at Pubcon, SMX, State of Search, Brighton SEO and more, and has been presenting at conferences for over a decade.