New in SEOprofiler: mobile first audit reports

Mobile-first indexing means Google will predominantly use the mobile version of the content for indexing and ranking. Historically, Google’s index primarily used the desktop version of a page’s content when evaluating the relevance of a page to a user’s query.

Since the majority of users now access Google via a mobile device, the index will primarily use the mobile version of a page’s content going forward.

With mobile-first indexing, Googlebot primarily crawls and indexes pages with the smartphone agent.

Google does not create a separate mobile-first index. They continue to use only one index. The contents of mobile pages will be used with Google’s ranking algorithms. The ranking of your web pages now will depend on the content of the mobile version of your web pages.

If you use responsive web design, then the pages for desktop and mobile are the same. In that case, your rankings won’t change at all.

If you have mobile pages that are different from the desktop version of your web pages, your desktop rankings will change based on the content that can be found on your mobile pages.

If important content is missing on your mobile pages, your desktop rankings might drop. Make sure that your mobile pages contain the same content as your desktop pages. Responsive web design is the easiest way to do that.

When you create a new project in SEOprofiler, the website audit tool will automatically use a mobile user-agent to check your web pages. That means that the website audit tool will get the same pages that mobile user will get.

You could use a mobile user-agent before but now it is a default settings. If you want to change the user-agent in existing projects, you can do so on the settings page of the website audit tool (SEOprofiler > Your project > Website audit > Settings):

The website audit tool is a powerful web page optimizatio tool that checks the web pages of your website for errors that influence the position of your web pages on search engines: