Acing the Google Mobile-Friendly Test

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How to Ace the Google Mobile-Friendly Test & Score 100%
by Adam Whittles, YouMoz
April 23, 2015

What most of you may not already know is that behind the Google mobile-Friendly test is a plethora of interesting data, including:

• Mobile-friendly score/percentage
• Rule impact score for each of the areas affecting the mobile-friendly score/percentage
• Number of resources "fetched", including the respective URLs
• Number of resource fetch failures

You can now access this data for free by using the mobile-friendly checker Chrome extension and the bulk mobile-friendly checker at URLitor.com.

As far as we can see from the data, there are five rules that impact the mobile-friendly score you receive from Google:

1. Viewport Configuration
2. Font Legibility
3. Use of Incompatible Plugins
4. Content to Viewport
5. Size and Proximity of Links

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