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Fix mobile usability issues found on http://www.example.com/

To: webmaster of http://www.example.com/

Google systems have tested 5 pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile usability errors. The errors on these 5 pages severely affect how mobile users are able to experience your website. These pages will not be seen as mobile-friendly by Google Search, and will therefore be displayed and ranked appropriately for smartphone users.

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I imagine others here are seeing these messages too. For me, they all refer to simple sites that look just fine on a mobile (e.g. http://mackerron.com). In every case, the 'critical mobile usability errors' detected are: Touch elements too close; Viewport not configured; Small font size.

I find these messages pretty obnoxious.

* As a web user, I want Google to find me the best hits for my search terms — not the hits that have big fonts and big buttons.

* Also as a web user, I generally hate it when websites serve a stupid big-text mobile version to me, usually missing important functionality (see also http://xkcd.com/869/). My iPhone is just great at displaying the real web, and has been since 2007. Even my £100 Moto G is pretty good at that.

So Google appears to be arm-twisting me as a web developer into crippling my sites, and at the same time downplaying other people's useful content for me because their developers haven't (or haven't yet) played ball.

If I were the Google Webmaster Tools Team, I might instead think of firing these sorts of messages at the smartphone OS developers down the hall, and smartphone manufacturers across the world, and tell them their damn smartphones have 'critical mobile usability errors'.

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Is anyone with me on this?