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  • SOLVED Better mobile validation by Google

    Posted 8 years 11 months ago
    • Hi,

      I am using Chapelco theme and the new Google test for mobile friendly sites are not happy.
      Google Pagespeed Insight for mobile ARE happy, so all is not lost.

      I am using J2.5 and Chapelco 1.5 - will be upgrading to J3.4 / Chapelco 1.6 shortly.

      My question is: does newer RT templates fare better on Google's new test ?

      Cheers
      /Poul
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    Re: SOLVED Better mobile validation by Google

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    Re: SOLVED Better mobile validation by Google

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  • Re: SOLVED Better mobile validation by Google

    Posted 8 years 11 months ago
    • Hi Damir,

      I am somewhat confused.
      When checking robots.txt with the webmaster tools it dos not report any error but reports one warning:
      Crawl-delay: 10 will be ignored.

      But there is no crawl-delay line in my robots.txt.

      Alas: may it wants me to put it in. When I do, it does not make any difference.

      So what shuld one do enter it or remove it ?
      And does this in any way influence the "mobile rating" by the Google tool ?

      Cheers,
      /Poul
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    Re: SOLVED Better mobile validation by Google

    Posted 8 years 11 months ago
    • This is because google is not "seeing" your site as end user would - if you look at the image of the sire they show you you will see it doesn't look right - this is because googlebot has been prevented from accessing certain directories because of the content in your robots.txt file in your joomla root directory. You will need to comment out the lines that currently specify "disallow" on cache,components,libraries,modules and plugins (add a # at the start of the line). You could also make this change specifically for the googlebots too.

      This is what I use:
      User-agent: *
Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /bin/
#Disallow: /cache/
Disallow: /cli/
#Disallow: /components/
Disallow: /includes/
Disallow: /installation/
Disallow: /language/
Disallow: /layouts/
#Disallow: /libraries/
Disallow: /logs/
#Disallow: /modules/
#Disallow: /plugins/
Disallow: /tmp/


      Regards, Mark.
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  • Re: SOLVED Better mobile validation by Google

    Posted 8 years 11 months ago
    • Thanks Mark, that did it.
      Your detailed explanation is much appreciated.
      Google (and I) are now very happy :-)

      /Poul
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