Google has formally sundown the Google Search Console Cell Usability report, the Cell-Pleasant Check software and the Cell-Pleasant Check API in the present day. Google advised us again in April 2023 that this may occur on December 1st and Google introduced in the present day on December 4th that it has been performed.
“As we speak we’re sunsetting Search Console’s Cell Usability report, Cell-Pleasant Check software and Cell-Pleasant Check API. We consider these instruments helped web site homeowners make the net a greater place – thanks for working with us on this journey,” Google posted on X.
What Google wrote. Google posted again then, “Additionally beginning December 1, 2023, we’ll be retiring Search Console’s “Cell Usability” report, the Cell-Pleasant Check software and Cell-Pleasant Check API. This doesn’t imply that cell usability isn’t vital for fulfillment with Google Search. It stays important for customers, who’re utilizing cell gadgets greater than ever, and as such, it stays part of our web page expertise steerage. However within the almost ten years since we initially launched this report, many different strong assets for evaluating cell usability have emerged, together with Lighthouse from Chrome.”
Entry eliminated. Once you attempt to discover the Search Console cell usability report inside Search Console, you gained’t be capable to. Additionally the cell pleasant testing software, which is accessible over right here, has been redirected to Lighthouse. And the API ought to now not be returning outcomes.
Why we care. When you have been utilizing these studies for purchasers or inside search engine optimization work, you’ll now not be capable to use them, as they’re gone. Guarantee your websites and webpages are mobile-friendly utilizing different instruments, similar to Lighthouse.
