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Do all users understand what the "full site" is? They might see the option but it doesn't click what the option really is?
Perhaps worth considering a wording change for "Switch to Full Site" could be "Switch to desktop site" or if length permits "Switch from mobile to desktop site". Vice versa for the other direction. |
Originally Posted by plunet
(Post 37269391)
Do all users understand what the "full site" is? They might see the option but it doesn't click what the option really is?
Perhaps worth considering a wording change for "Switch to Full Site" could be "Switch to desktop site" or if length permits "Switch from mobile to desktop site". Vice versa for the other direction. I have some web design experience so I know how to interpret the source code of the site, and that is where I saw that a developer had intended for a "full site" button to show. Unfortunately, it does not show on any of my systems, and it's more time than I can spend to figure out why. It's getting pretty annoying at this point, so I'm hoping post helps the maintainers resolve the situation. I recently clicked in from a google search looking for mileage run info, and had my view automatically switched to mobile, but caught the link in action. Of course the reason I do this so routinely is the search feature sometimes just doesn't work well. A search result linked directly to a webpage with the "styleid" explicitly set to mobile view: This is odd, because why would Google be finding links that explicitly switch the view to mobile and desktop? And then it hit me - ironically, I believe the additional mobile/desktop links that have been plastered on the site (some hidden on certain devices/screen sizes, some shown) are actually causing the problem. Search engines will read all the different links shown on a website unless the links are explicitly marked to not be indexed. At least one of the mobile/desktop view links was inadvertently not marked as such, and thus search engines will actually occasionally randomly follow those "switch view" links (which exists for every single forum post!) and consider that another possible webpage. Unfortunately it's probably too late now to remove all the links Google has crawled in its history - the only real solution is likely to disable the "styleid" key altogether, rename it, and be more careful about any future "switch desktop" or "switch mobile" links in the future. Separately, regarding the missing buttons, there are web development tools that will easily send you screenshots of websites from a huge variety of platforms, some of them even free, so it may be worth it for one of the maintainers to run one of them and figure out which offending browser/screen/device combinations and causing all the reports of difficulty switching back and forth. --- Here's what the hamburger menu (this is the actual technical term for the three lines) looks like on all my desktop systems, resized, and not, during a single session: https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...be15a08e6b.png https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...0fbacbfa60.png |
Originally Posted by threeten
(Post 37316884)
. At least one of the mobile/desktop view links was inadvertently not marked as such, and thus search engines will actually occasionally randomly follow those "switch view" links (which exists for every single forum post!) and consider that another possible webpage. Unfortunately it's probably too late now to remove all the links Google has crawled in its history - the only real solution is likely to disable the "styleid" key altogether, rename it, and be more careful about any future "switch desktop" or "switch mobile" links in the future.
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Originally Posted by Zorak
(Post 37316887)
Related to this, lately a lot of Google search results links that I follow to FT link to the printer friendly version of a page :(
-J. |
Very helpful! Thank you. Wasted 10 mins of my life :D
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