Whoa! Google just failed its own mobile-friendliness test

Think With Google results showed its own pages need some optimisation

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Google’s desktop speed is poor, and can be optimised by prioritising visible content.

Google has just launched a new tool – Think With Google – to test how mobile friendly a website is. But surprisingly it seems no one at Google used the tool before making it public. So when The Next Web decided to put some websites to test on Think With Google, Google itself didn’t perform too well.

The website put out a set of results that showed Google’s desktop speed is poor, and can be optimised by prioritising visible content. In fact, Think With Google didn’t pass its own test either.

According to the data, Google’s new tool scores 59, 66 in mobile speed and desktop speed respectively, which is poor. “Jarringly enough, Think With Google, the very team that launched this product, has the worst scores by far,” said The Next Web.

However, since The Next Web story, Google seems to have put its engineering might to work and fixed the scores. Google.in shows up as good.

However, since The Next Web story, Google seems to have put its engineering might to work and fixed the scores. It now shows up as good.

The website, which tested a number of websites for mobile friendliness and desktop speed, says bing.com scored a little better than Google. The Next Web initially thought it was probably a fluke and tested Google’s Blogger.com next. Unfortunately, Blogger performed even worse, scoring a 55 out of 100 in mobile speed.

Gmail, however, did good, scoring a 96 out of 100 in mobile friendliness.

Think With Google helps businesses improve their websites by making them mobile friendly. The Test My Site feature lets users check a websites’ speed on mobile, and desktop. Think With Google advises businesses on how to create useful apps, latest trends based on Google’s Search data, how to create effective mobile content etc.

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