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Show HN: Test how mobile-friendly your site is. (New tool from Google)

2 pointsby amitmerchantabout 8 years ago

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LordWinstanleyabout 8 years ago
I&#x27;ve used this tool before and, while it gives some useful pointers, I wouldn&#x27;t get too hung up on the results.<p>One classic example is that it marks your site down if you don&#x27;t minify your JS and CSS. On my sites, the CSS [and much of the JS] is hand-written and contains only what I need to style my pages. It&#x27;s only a couple of hundred lines and just over 10k. Still it gets marked down because it&#x27;s not minified.<p>If, on the other hand, I installed some bloated library like Bootstrap, I&#x27;d be given extra brownie points for it being minified, in spite of it being several times as big and containing huge amounts of &#x27;stuff&#x27; that is not even used.<p>Also, anyone who&#x27;s ever added Google Custom Search Engine to a site and had to customise it will bristle slightly at being educated in optimal web design by a company which uses several hundred lines of CSS to style a solitary text input box and &#x27;Submit&#x27; button!