Technical

Viewport meta tag

Checks if the mobile viewport is correctly configured.

Why does this matter?

Google uses mobile-first indexing: the mobile version of your site determines your ranking. Without a viewport meta tag, mobile browsers display a shrunk desktop version, leading to poor user experience.

How to fix it?

Add the viewport meta tag in the <head>: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">. Avoid setting maximum-scale=1 or user-scalable=no - this harms accessibility.

This check scores from 0 to 100. Below 50 is a fail, 50 to 89 is a warning, 90 or above is good. After each crawl you see the score per page in your report, with a short note on what we found.

Frequently asked questions

Checks if the mobile viewport is correctly configured.

Google uses mobile-first indexing: the mobile version of your site determines your ranking. Without a viewport meta tag, mobile browsers display a shrunk desktop version, leading to poor user experience.

Add the viewport meta tag in the <head>: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">. Avoid setting maximum-scale=1 or user-scalable=no - this harms accessibility.

Example

Copy the code below and adapt the domain name, brand name and content to your situation.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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