Low Desktop Traffic

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Seems that google lower your desktop traffic if your site works better in mobile. I have a Wordpress site, when I started I had more desktop traffic than mobile, then, one day I decided to modify my theme, to be more responsive and weight less. And suddenly the next day mobile went high and desktop really low.

This is a problem that I can't resolve until now, because mobile has lower CPC than desktop.

The theme I use is a modified version of Hueman. At first, my website only was hueman with some color modification. I wanted to have a good score in pagespeed so I modified it to weight less and fit better in mobile.

¿What do you think could be the part that determinates if a site is for mobiles or for desktop?
#search engine optimization #desktop #low #traffic
  • No, they don't seem to do that.

    Your image doesn't work, because the attachments on this site don't work.
  • I don't know how to make this smaller but this is the graph from analytics.
  • Well, that's one useless image. I'm not sure what you think it shows us, but the only thing I can derive is that you're using way too few data points to even analyze anything.
  • Sure, that's the part where it breaks, the day when I modified the theme. Before and after that Is like the same. Currently my desktop traffic is less than 10% of my mobile traffic.
  • It is not because Google throttles your desktop traffic for being mobile friendly.

    Did you ever think that changing your theme might have also changed your rankings? Are you even monitoring rankings?
  • Yes I do monitoring with Semrush. Probably is as nettiapina says, I had no so much data in those moments and that could be the reason.

    I would researh more on this because there is maybe something that diffentiate a desktop website than a mobile one.

    I've seen that most of the biggest sites aren't responsive, they are adaptative, detect which device enter and according to that serve files.

    For example buzzfeed weights like 3MB or more in desktop, but when opened in a mobile device it weights less than 1MB. That's a huge difference, and search spiders could take that in account.
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    I guess we'll all sit around the campfire guessing since we have no idea what the before/after site looked like (Wayback vs live website/page).

    For all we know you're using rel="alternate" or canonical tags pointing to mobile only pages.
  • You must use high quality images so that the clickthrough rate can be increased.
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  • lol....that cricket video. LOL
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    Low Desktop Traffic

    Seems that google lower your desktop traffic if your site works better in mobile. I have a Wordpress site, when I started I had more desktop traffic than mobile, then, one day I decided to modify my theme, to be more responsive and weight less. And suddenly the next day mobile went high and desktop really low. This is a problem that I can't resolve until now, because mobile has lower CPC than desktop.