New Google Mobile Testing Tool

[engine]

Google has a new mobile friendly testing tool which you can try out from this link.

[search.google.com...]

When entering the url the basic response requires an "I am not a robot" click, and away it goes. However, I couldn't get it to work on every site I tested, coming back with "Oops! Something went wrong. Please wait a bit and try again."

Perhaps the tool is being overloaded.

When it did work, to get more detail it did want me to log into the Search Console.

[Wilburforce]

It works for me, but doesn't seem to do anything the previous tool didn't do. All I get is "This page seems mobile-friendly."

Also - is this what you meant? - "Open site-wide Mobile usability report" links to the GSC Mobile Usability page (under Search Traffic).

I tried it on a few third-party URLs (all mine have been "mobile-friendly" since before the first tools appeared), and you do get some more detail if your page does not seem mobile-friendly. Other links that come up in that case go to GSC Help.

[engine]

Aha, no errors found so there's less to see, thanks.

I found an old site that has been neglected and I know it's not mobile friendly. Obviously, I get more errors showing up, although I wouldn't say it was particularly helpful.

[RedBar]

Huh!

Not mobile friendly
Text too small to read

This is for a new site tested across desktops, laptops, several different sized tablets with different operating systems plus about 20 different mobile phones, smart and not so smart, all pages rendered well and were perfectly readable even for me, 60+, not wearing glasses however I need them for reading normal print etc.

All other testing tools give it a mobile rating.

So what's going on?

[RedBar]

So what's going on?

I've slightly tweaked the font size and it's now rated mobile friendly however I prefer the previous size. I wonder if this will be used for their new mobile-friendly rankings?