Any SEO Software That Can Run Mobile Usability Audits?

[baldidiot]

Anyone know of an seo tool that can run an audit on an entire site for potential mobile usability issues?

We have a couple of old sites that have changed platform and/or merged where there's a few issues relating to tables/images overflowing in older content. I basically want to run a site audit but where it's specifically looking for mobile issues.

Before anyone mentions google's search console... funny thing is that google isn't viewing these as mobile usability errors, the pages are passing fine in both the search console and the individual URL inspection. We still want to fix it though, for the users and also for when google does finally figure out there might be an issue.

We're about talking sites with thousands of pages here, so needs to be a whole of site audit, not on a url by url basis (otherwise we'd just check them one by one... in the browser).

[saw7]

There are several SEO tools that can run an audit on an entire site for potential mobile usability issues. Some popular options include:

Google's Mobile-Friendly Test: This tool will analyze a page and report if it has a mobile-friendly design.

Google Lighthouse: This is an open-source tool that can be used to audit web pages for performance, accessibility, and more. It can be run on a website as a whole or on individual pages, and it includes a mobile usability audit.

Screaming Frog: This is a crawler tool that can be used to analyze websites and identify technical SEO issues, including mobile usability issues.

SEMrush Site Audit: This tool can be used to run a comprehensive site audit, including a mobile usability check.

Ahrefs Site Audit: This tool can be used to run a comprehensive site audit, including a mobile usability check.

DeepCrawl: This is a website crawler that can be used to analyze websites and identify technical SEO issues, including mobile usability issues.

MobileMoxie: This tool can be used to test mobile usability, including analyzing the mobile-friendliness of a website, its load time, and other important mobile-specific metrics.

These tools can help you identify mobile usability issues on your website, but please keep in mind that it's important to also manually test the site on different devices and browsers to get a more accurate picture of the issues you're facing.

[eenzoo]

Oh mate, I guess that's hard ... try this one on bulk via URL list https://www.experte.com/mobile-friendly

[baldidiot]

Thanks for that, looks very promising - I'll give it a whirl!

[universal4]

I will also look at the proggy eenzoo suggested.

You can also use chrome and change the user agent. I installed chrome canary just for this, it is basically chrome beta but will run along side chrome in a different session, cache and settings so any changes I make does not affect my regular install of chrome (even tho my main browser s still firefox)
Here is one example of how that is done.
https://gentofsearch.com/blog/chrome...bot-simulator/

Rick
Universal4

[baldidiot]

Sorry I think you post wasn't showing when I replied before.

There are several SEO tools that can run an audit on an entire site for potential mobile usability issues. Some popular options include:

Google's Mobile-Friendly Test: This tool will analyze a page and report if it has a mobile-friendly design.

Google Lighthouse: This is an open-source tool that can be used to audit web pages for performance, accessibility, and more. It can be run on a website as a whole or on individual pages, and it includes a mobile usability audit.

Like I say, google isn't reporting the issues in search console or via an individual page test so they won't work here.

Screaming Frog: This is a crawler tool that can be used to analyze websites and identify technical SEO issues, including mobile usability issues.

SEMrush Site Audit: This tool can be used to run a comprehensive site audit, including a mobile usability check.

Ahrefs Site Audit: This tool can be used to run a comprehensive site audit, including a mobile usability check.

DeepCrawl: This is a website crawler that can be used to analyze websites and identify technical SEO issues, including mobile usability issues.

None of these do mobile usability audits as far as I can tell. We have ahrefs and they definitely don't, the others I googled and the only thing you can do is use a mobile crawler which doesn't tell you about things like content overflowing the page etc..

Unless someone here has one of these and can actually verify you can do it?

MobileMoxie: This tool can be used to test mobile usability, including analyzing the mobile-friendliness of a website, its load time, and other important mobile-specific metrics.

This sounded really promising but the quick test I ran just shows you the mobile version alongside the desktop, meaning you'd need to physically check each page? We have thousands so need something we can audit in bulk where it reports back the URLs with errors.

Or did I miss something here?

[baldidiot]

Oh mate, I guess that's hard ... try this one on bulk via URL list https://www.experte.com/mobile-friendly

This looked so promising... it didn't pick up the urls that I knew had issues though. Looking into it it says it uses the same methodology as google, which makes sense but also means they're not finding the error either (as google isn't... yet).

Thanks for the suggestion though mate, appreciate that.

[baldidiot]

You can also use chrome and change the user agent. I installed chrome canary just for this, it is basically chrome beta but will run along side chrome in a different session, cache and settings so any changes I make does not affect my regular install of chrome (even tho my main browser s still firefox)
Here is one example of how that is done.
https://gentofsearch.com/blog/chrome...bot-simulator/

Funnily enough it's the other way around, google seems to be saying it's fine but users see issues. Interesting tool though, perhaps not for this but for other things.

[wonderpunter]

Even with tools including google labs the only thing that gives you a real result is core web vitals which is based on real times, all these lab tests can get you good scores but ranking is down to the real experience

[baldidiot]

Even with tools including google labs the only thing that gives you a real result is core web vitals which is based on real times, all these lab tests can get you good scores but ranking is down to the real experience

That's more about load times isn't it? That's not what we're after here, it's more about usability issues - the kind of thing google shows in the mobile usability report.

[universal4]

The big difficulty is that most tools, Google included, that when there is a slight issue like clickable items too close together or a font size too small you missed, the tools just report the issue on the and give zero indication WHERE.

It really is sad that Google just says, this page has a problem but we have no intention of telling you where. If they provided 10 or 20 character snippet at the point of the issue it would go far in showing their willingness to want problems actually fixed they complain about.

Rick
Universal4