google search console error content wider than screen

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From Simion, Dear I have got new error google search console error content wider than screen and a number of pages affected.

https://www.pakdefense.com/blog/pakistan-first-aewacs-repairing-country/

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This is the actual message from Google Search Console:

Top new issues found, ordered by number of affected pages:

Clickable elements too close together

Content wider than screen

Text too small to read

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Hi,

Sometimes if the website resources like the stylesheet are slow to load, the result may be negative. If the style is not loaded in time when running the test the mobile version will look like this – http://prntscr.com/o3vv4q so it will mention that the menu item links are too close together. But actually when checking with a phone there is no problem.

There is a discussion in this topic – https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/i-have-two-problems-in-mobile-friendly-test/

A solution to improve the mobile speed of the website is to use the mobile theme plugin. This is a simplified version of the website, it is much faster
https://tagdiv.com/mobile-theme-automatic-optimization-for-mobile-newspaper-theme/

Thanks

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Dear, how can I correct this issue. I have activated the autoptimize plugin yesterday. Is it is causing the issue???

OR I have to install and enabled the mobile theme to correct this…

The installation of Mobile theme also not solving the issue…

  • This reply was modified 7 years by great1212.
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From what I can see now the pages are mobile friendly – http://prntscr.com/o47fd4

But the mobile posts and pages are still somewhat slow to load even with the mobile theme activated. The causes for this to happen can be plugins, ads, slow server or hosting. I see the server responds quite slow – http://prntscr.com/o47i20

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I tried to explain above why this may happen, if the website loads slowly and the stylesheet and other website resources are not loaded in time, the tester will detect various issues.

Without the stylesheet loaded in time, for example the menu items are detected as being too close together – http://prntscr.com/o4dp3t
With the stylesheet they are not close together actually – http://prntscr.com/o4dpie

You can try to begin optimizing the website, making it faster to avoid such issues. Reduce the plugin number if possible, maybe use a CDN, consider a better hosting, also make sure the cache is set as recommended
https://tagdiv.com/wp-super-cache-plugin-install-and-configure/

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Hello Simion, I think I have hit the jackpot. I have solved all the issues related to Google Search Console as:

Top new issues found, ordered by number of affected pages:

Clickable elements too close together

Content wider than screen

Text too small to read

After hours of googling I have made the change to my robots.txt file and add the following line in the Robots.txt and Bingo, it solves all problem:

Sitemap: https://your-site.com/sitemap.xml

What this Sitemap line does, any idea.

However, issue has been sold. Its a very valuable find, so I am more than Glad to share this with you.

Regards,

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