No mobile viewport tag

9.7%

of the 3,044 free scans considered in the last 30 days raised this finding. That is 296 scans across 296 distinct sites. 95% interval 6.8% to 13.6%.

What it means

Without a viewport tag, mobile browsers render the page at desktop width and scale it down, making everything harder to read and tap.

How to fix it

Add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> so the page lays out for the device rather than being scaled down.

How to check it yourself

View source and search the head for meta name="viewport". Its absence means mobile browsers render the page at desktop width.

What fixed looks like

Loading the page on a phone shows it laid out for the device, not scaled down from desktop width.

How we measured this

Go Voltic scans a site and records which findings it raises. The share above is over every free four-page scan in the last 30 days that loaded at least one page, which is 3,044 scans. Deep scans of paid reports and of the research sweep read a site at a different depth and are a separate population, never in this denominator. It is not a survey and it is not an estimate: it is a count of what our own scanner found. Sites are counted once each in the distinct-sites figure, so a site scanned twice does not weigh double there.

The interval is a 95% Wilson interval. A share printed without its sample size reads as certainty and is indistinguishable from a guess, so both are always shown. Figures on this page were computed on 2026-09-08.

The same share sits beside every other finding on the benchmarks page, which also carries the whole table as CSV and JSON and says how to cite it.

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