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No viewport meta tag

Without a viewport tag, mobile browsers render the page at desktop width and scale it down — unreadable, and penalised under mobile-first indexing.

Why it matters

Google has used mobile-first indexing since 2019. A missing viewport causes desktop-width rendering on mobile, hurting Core Web Vitals and rankings.

Example fix

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />

Authoritative reference

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

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