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  • October 4, 2018 at 2:19 am #1017643
    Jason

    Hi there,
    I have ‘content wider than screen’ & ‘clickable elements too close together’ errors appearing on a single page on one of my client sites.
    Google is of course unhelpful in telling me which elements might be causing them an issue – so how on earth am I supposed to figure this out & fix?
    Thanks,
    Jason

    October 4, 2018 at 8:34 am #1017757
    Rikard

    Hey Jason,

    We can help you out with editing your content, but we would of course need to see the content which is wider than the screen and which elements are too close together. Otherwise it’s impossible to help you.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    October 4, 2018 at 8:48 am #1017767
    Jason

    Hey Rickard,
    That’s exactly the issue – what content is wider than the screen? I certainly can’t see any, so how do I find it?
    This is a criticism of Google, as they don’t actually tell you which elements are too close together or wider than the screen, so if you can’t actually see either of those issues when viewing the page – how are you supposed to figure it out?
    If you haven’t had to help anybody out with this before, then that’s no problem – I just thought you might have some pointers :)
    Thanks,
    Jason

    October 4, 2018 at 10:44 am #1017805
    Rikard

    Hi Jason,

    Thanks for making that point, it’s exactly my opinion about that test/notification. You are not the first one asking for a fix for this, but as far as I know, we have never been able to find out what they want changed either. To me it’s just plain stupid to tell a website owner that something is wrong with their website, and not specifying exactly what it is. If you can’t find something which relates to what they are telling you, then I would advice you to just ignore it. We have just as much a clue as to what Google is referring to as you, which is not much unfortunately.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    December 15, 2018 at 7:29 am #1045569
    sitesme

    Hi!
    I just received the same error from Google “Content wider than screen” and nothing was changed on the website, being there for 1+ year.
    The only changes were obviously Enfold’s updates and the plugins when they come up.

    Strangely enough, when I go to fix this, the affected page that Google gives me is /wp-content/themes/enfold/framework/php/avia_shortcodes/tinymce/img/

    Does anyone know a way to just “shut up” Google from this non-sense?

    Thank you

    December 16, 2018 at 7:03 am #1045805
    Rikard

    Hi sitesme,

    I’m not sure exactly how to do that, but you could try to block access to the framework folder via robots.txt? It might help, otherwise I would suggest to just ignore it.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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