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Discouraged Viewport Types

All pages with a viewport value that is discouraged due to poor mobile compatibility, namely the minimum-scale, maximum-scale and user-scalable attributes.

Priority: Low

Impact: Negative

What issues it may cause​

These pages will a poor user experience on mobile devices and may not be categorised as Mobile Friendly by Google which may affect rankings in search engines on mobile devices.

How do you fix it​

The viewport values on the affected pages should be reviewed. If there are non-standard attributes, conduct a Google Mobile-friendly test.

What is the positive impact​

  • The user experience for mobile devices should improve resulting in an improved conversion rate.
  • Rankings for mobile search may also improve potentially leading to more traffic.

How to fetch the data for this report template​

You will need to run a crawl for report template to generate report. When report has been generated and you have crawl id you can fetch data for the report using the following query:

query GetReportStatForCrawl(
    $crawlId: ObjectID!
    $reportTemplateCode: String!
    $after: String
   ) {
      getReportStat(
        input: {crawlId: $crawlId, reportTemplateCode: $reportTemplateCode}
      ) {
        crawlUrls(after: $after, reportType: Basic) {
          nodes {
            pageTitle
            url
            description
            foundAtUrl
            deeprank
            level
            viewport
            varyUserAgent
            mobileRelAlternateUrl
            foundInGoogleAnalytics
            foundInGoogleSearchConsole
            foundInBacklinks
            foundInList
            foundInLogSummary
            foundInWebCrawl
            foundInSitemap
          }
          totalCount
          pageInfo {
            endCursor
            hasNextPage
          }
        }
     }
   }

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