After update Google says: text on mobile too small to read

  • Resolved rogierpmd

    (@rogierpmd)


    4 years ago

    After running the latest automatic updates of WordPress and the Twenty Twenty theme last week, I have started to receive notifications from my Google Search Console, telling me that my website suddenly has 2 errors in Mobile Usability:

    – “Text too small too read”
    – “Clickable elements are too close together”

    Both errors apply to 1 page only so far: https://gaininggoodwill.com/guides/co-creation-growing-your-business-with-customer-approval/ I haven’t touched or changed the contents of this page for months. Never caused an issue before. I am assuming that this is simply the first page the Google crawler found, more pages may cause the same error when the crawler returns to re-index the rest of my content.

    When I visited my website after the automatic updates, I already noticed the (default) text of Twenty Twenty being smaller on mobile, but at first I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me. Now that I have also received these error notifications in Google Search Console, I feel confident that your update has indeed changed something that triggers these errors.

    Has this been a intended change? If so, why? Apparently you have made your theme slightly less Google-/mobile-friendly. Not what you want, I’m guessing.

    I would urge you to change the text size on mobile back to what it was before.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter rogierpmd

    (@rogierpmd)

    Problem vanished out of the blue, after 3 days of the aforementioned error notifications in Google Search console. Did not touch one character on any webpage. Strange.

    Anonymous User 14254218

    (@anonymized-14254218)

    It happens quite frequent that google changes their metrics. The developers of the WordPress themes highly value accessibility in all ways, so I would rather tip on some shinanigans on Googles end.

    The search and menu button texts are a bit small according to Lighthouse tests, so maybe this triggered the errors. But since this was randomly resolved, we will never know ??

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