Pinch-zoom is disabled

11.4%

of the 3,044 free scans considered in the last 30 days raised this finding. That is 347 scans across 347 distinct sites. 95% interval 8.5% to 15.2%.

What it means

Blocking pinch-to-zoom removes a control low-vision visitors rely on to read a page at all.

How to fix it

Remove user-scalable=no and maximum-scale from the viewport meta tag. Blocking zoom fails WCAG and makes the page unusable for anyone who needs larger text.

How to check it yourself

Load the page on a phone or a narrow browser window and try to pinch-zoom in. If nothing happens, zoom is blocked.

What fixed looks like

Pinching to zoom in on the page enlarges the text as expected.

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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