Is Joomla website ready for Google Mobile Friendly update

Since April 21st 2015 Google Inc has announced and changed the search engine algorithm and started boosting mobile-friendly based websites on mobile devices. In this way all the mobile searchers can find the relevant and readable results faster.

All not-mobile-friendly websites are left behind in search engine result when it will become Mobile Friendly. So let's see how to make mobile friendly site in Joomla fast way.

Go and one step to make mobile-friendly Joomla website!!.

In Joomla, robots.txt blocks many directories from robots. It have include, cache, images, plugins, templates directories. Now a days many Joomla extensions cache images, css or js files and all your template images are located in templates folder.

Default robots.txt file in Joomla:

If Google mobile-friendly website test will fail during these directories are blocked and when we will serve your website page without images, templates css or js files. To fix this problem simply open your robots.txt which is located in your Joomla website root folder and replace it with below one.

After modified robots.txt file in Joomla:

If previous test result shown its not a mobile friendly site, then test after the robots.txt file has been changed and now your website should be mobile friendly.