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Update:
After sleeping on this change by Google (which we cannot reverse or control), and looking at Google Analysis as well as Google Search Console, I am not going to make any immediate code changes because all the stats show traffic continue to rise month-over-month (since April 2019). Our index of links with Google continues to grow, month over month.
So, I think better not to make any major changes based on the Google change to "Your site has been switched to Mobile First Indexing" and monitor the situation week by week.
I also checked to see if there is any "much better" responsive forum software (that works great on both mobile and desktop) to port our DB over to; for example the latest version of vBulletin, Xenforo, etc. But after a quick look, I did not see any compelling reason to do this; because the issue with Google seems to be with forums in general.
If there was any modern, very good, forum software which looked great (mobile and desktop), was well supported and had the tools to port our legacy vB database over to the new forum, I would consider this; but I do not think there are any good options out there.
So, I better not make any major knee-jerk reactions (code changes) to something Google has done which I don't really understand well.
If anyone has more information or suggestions, based on knowledge of what Google is doing here, please reply.
Probably if we use PageSpeed Modules many markup can be corrected, also can reduce few http requests, if you enable http2 (major modern browsers supports) protocol then we may gain little improvements in performance ( no need to minify resources, multiplexing takes care )
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Hi Akshay,
All of those things you listed, we did in 2018 and before with the exception of mod_pagespeed, for Apache2, which broke the site the last time I tried to implement it.
However, I admit that we need to spend more time optimizing the mobile HTML since most of the optimization has been on the desktop.
But the issue is really "why"? Because Google Analytics shows that a full 94% of our site traffic is from desktop browsers and only 4% is from mobile browsers, so it seems a bit "nutty" for Google to automatically switch our indexing to "Mobile First Indexing" when mobile accounts for only around 4% of all traffic.
I will try to enable mod_pagespeed again this weekend when the traffic is low and see what happens.
OBTW, here is a list of the current modules enabled:
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Originally Posted by Neo
Also, it does look like I need to run the site though the WC3 HTML validator again as well.
OK. I think we are "more than OK" on WC3 HTML validator on the desktop (just fixed some pages).
But honestly, all of this had really nothing to do (that I can think of) with the title of this post:
"Your site has been switched to Mobile First Indexing"
and why a site like ours with over ninety percent all traffic from the web has been switched to Mobile First Indexing by Google; and what we should really do, if anything about it. I have already read the "google learn more" pages.
OK.... I ran the main pages though the validator and all looks fine ( .... ). Was some errors (most were warning before and are not listed as errors), so I fixed them (the errors, not the warnings).
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Originally Posted by Akshay Hegde
Probably if we use PageSpeed Modules many markup can be corrected, also can reduce few http requests, if you enable http2 (major modern browsers supports) protocol then we may gain little improvements in performance ( no need to minify resources, multiplexing takes care )
OK.... Done... mod_pagespeed is enabled and verified running.
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https://www.unix.com/members/1-albums214-picture1018.jpeg
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