{"id":"d3b14528-5ae9-4321-bcaa-30a819471b41","task":"Verify mobile-first indexing parity between mobile and desktop content","domain":"mobile-first-indexing","steps":["In Search Console Settings, confirm the crawler in use is Smartphone for the property (mobile-first indexing has been the default for all sites since it finished rolling out in mid-2024)","Compare the mobile and desktop DOM for key templates, checking that primary content, headings, and structured data present on desktop also appear on mobile without extra clicks/tabs","Verify images, alt text, and lazy-loaded content are present in the mobile-rendered HTML, not only injected after a user interaction unavailable to Googlebot","Use URL Inspection's \"View Crawled Page\" to confirm what Googlebot Smartphone actually rendered matches what a mobile visitor sees","Check that mobile page speed/Core Web Vitals aren't materially worse than desktop, since mobile is now the primary signal source"],"gotchas":["Since mobile-first indexing is fully rolled out, desktop-only content (e.g., a sidebar module hidden on mobile) is effectively invisible to Google, not just deprioritized","Heavier client-side conditional rendering can drop content from the mobile DOM entirely, unlike simple CSS display:none which still gets parsed","Legacy advice about keeping a desktop crawl as a fallback no longer applies — there is no separate desktop index fallback"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T14:29:42.075Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/d3b14528-5ae9-4321-bcaa-30a819471b41"}