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Title: Mobile usability errors
Post by: Bmm_beer on September 14, 2022, 09:51:04 AM
Hi, I have noticed that the 'Mobile Usability' report page in Google Search Console has just started to detect many errors when it has always had none. I have not made any changes.

Text too small to read - 2669 pages
Elements too close - 2669 pages
Graphic window not defined - 2669 pages

These are the kind of pages it is detecting as errors

https://www.website.com/fr/component/virtuemart/?language=fr-FR&keyword=&tmpl=raw&Itemid=&orderby=product_name&dir=ASC&start=1620&limit=20
https://www.website.com/fr/component/virtuemart/?limit=20&language=fr-FR&tmpl=raw&orderby=product_name&dir=ASC&start=540

However, Google's mobile test shows that they have mobile usability

These pages are not supposed to be indexed, is this correct? How can I fix this?

I am concerned it might affect SEO

VM 3.8.8 Joomla 3.10.3
Title: Re: Mobile usability errors
Post by: jenkinhill on September 14, 2022, 11:33:31 AM
You are reporting template/CSS-related issues here, not VirtueMart errors. Template updated? Server PHP updated?  URL?
Title: Re: Mobile usability errors
Post by: GJC Web Design on September 14, 2022, 19:26:10 PM
try adding an exclusion in your robots.txt

no expert but something like   

Disallow: /*?*tmpl=
Title: Re: Mobile usability errors
Post by: Bmm_beer on September 15, 2022, 09:10:27 AM
Thank you both for your answers!

I will try the robots.txt solution and see how it goes.

Thanks again!