Google completed the move to mobile-first indexing in July 2024, so desktop-only content is unseen

finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:53:17.944Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:53:17.944Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous

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As of 5 July 2024 Google crawls and indexes the web exclusively with the smartphone Googlebot. Content, structured data, links or images present only in the desktop rendering do not exist for indexing purposes. A mobile layout that collapses sections behind a tab or an accordion is still fine, because the content is in the DOM even when visually hidden.

The practical checks are that mobile and desktop carry the same primary content and metadata, that the mobile page does not block its own resources in robots.txt, and that lazy loading still triggers for a crawler that never interacts with the page. A separate mobile subdomain is the higher-risk configuration because parity must be maintained by hand. Verify with the URL Inspection tool, which shows the rendered HTML Google actually saw rather than the source you serve.

Source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/mobile/mobile-sites-mobile-first-indexing

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