clickable elements too close together in orvis
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The googlebot smartphone crawler reports ‘clickable items too close together’ for the items on the portfolio page of my site. The items display fine on a phone so I suspect there is either an issue with googlebot or with how the Orvis theme responds to the crawl. The screenshot I took shows the images on the page being stacked on top of each other, which I imagine is what’s upsetting googlebot. Anyone else had this and/or got a solution? I’ve been through the issue with WordPress support but not got a resolution.
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Oops! This site is hosted here with us.
I’m looking at the portfolio page and wondering — could it actually be the archives widget? Those are fairly close to each other.
Did it say which links were affected?
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Hi supernovia. The report just says the portfolio page. I took a screenshot and put it on snipboard at https://snipboard.io/KzdAFD.jpg. It shows the stacking of images that I think is the root of the issue.
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Hi there,
That’s an issue with Googlebot. But I checked your site and it’s fine, and your theme is fully mobile-friendly.
Why are you checking your site in that tool? Have you noticed problems with your site loading on mobile? If not, I wouldn’t pay any attention to any errors that tool might show you.
That tool, and others like it, can’t tell whether or not your site is working properly. They just check your site against a set of arbitrary rules, and shows an error if your site doesn’t behave the way that particular tool believes it should behave. The best-designed websites in the world will still give a bunch of errors if you feed it into a tool like that.
So while tools like that are useful to diagnose the cause if something on a site is not working correctly, the fact that it shows an error for your site does not mean anything is actually wrong.
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Hi Kokkieh. Thanks for looking into this. I thought it might be something to do with googlebot. I use analytics and search console to keep an eye on my site and this was something kicked out by search console that I thought I should look into. I’ve just run the site through the Google mobile friendly testing tool, which concurs with your view that the site is fine. I’m happy to ignore the issue – it looks like there is nothing I could do about it anyway.
Thanks again for your time on this.
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