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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
With so many users on mobile devices, having a mobile-friendly web is important to us all. The
Mobile-Friendly Test
is a great way to check individual pages manually. We're happy to announce that this test is now
available via API as well.
The
Mobile-Friendly Test API
lets you test URLs using automated tools. For example, you could use it to monitor important pages
in your website in order to prevent accidental regressions in templates that you use. The
API method
runs all tests, and returns the same information - including a list of the blocked URLs - as the
manual test. The documentation includes simple samples to help get you started quickly.
We hope this API makes it easier to check your pages for mobile-friendliness and to get any such
issues resolved faster. We'd love to hear how you use the API—you can post in our
forum, and you
can link to any code or implementation that you've set up! As always, if you have any questions,
you can drop by our
webmaster help forum.
Posted by
John Mueller,
Webmaster Trends Analyst, Google Switzerland
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