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Today we are going to highlight a few stats focused on how important it is to be mobile friendly.

Hello! Thanks for listening to SEO tips today.

So I wanted to share some great insights on our increasing mobile use here in the US from App Annie.

The highlights:

• We collectively spent 4.2 hours on our phones in 2020 (a 20% YOY increase).
• This increase is the greatest in the Gen X/Baby Boomer dynamic.

And as a reminder, Googlebot is crawling mobile-first, and all desktop-only content will be dropped sometime in March 2021 (so this month). 

Mobile friendly includes ensuring that your site is:

• Fast loading
• Elements don’t shift as the page loads
• Elements are clickable with a thumb, and 
• Images that are viewable/expandable on a mobile phone. 

I also check to ensure that my clients have navigation that is crawlable with JS turned off with their responsive websites (which is a common issue). 

To check to see if you have any pages that are not rendered to show well on a mobile device, you can use Screaming Frog by turning on the “Rendering ->JavaScript” mode under the spider configuration tab and turn on rendered page screenshots. You can also view mobile usability errors in Google Search Console. 

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