# Rolling out the mobile-friendly update

Tuesday, April 21, 2015


As
[we noted earlier this year](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2015/02/finding-more-mobile-friendly-search),
today's the day we begin globally rolling out our mobile-friendly update. We're boosting the
ranking of mobile-friendly pages on mobile search results. Now searchers can more easily find
high-quality and relevant results where text is readable without tapping or zooming, tap targets
are spaced appropriately, and the page avoids unplayable content or horizontal scrolling.
![April 21st's mobile-friendly update boosts mobile search rankings for pages that are legible and usable on mobile devices.](https://developers.google.com/static/search/blog/images/archived_3Lyi07zgZzWl0U7Gq0ZwmqgEqsv2ir8-o3ky6eijHDFMzCoYFS.png)

This update:

- Affects only search rankings on mobile devices
- Affects search results in all languages globally
- Applies to individual pages, not entire websites


While the mobile-friendly change is important, we still use a variety of signals to rank search
results. The intent of the search query is still a very strong signal---so even if a page with
high quality content is not mobile-friendly, it could still rank high if it has great content for
the query.


To check if your site is mobile-friendly, you can examine individual pages with the
[Mobile-Friendly Test](https://search.google.com/test/mobile-friendly)
or check the status of your entire site through the
[Mobile Usability report in Webmaster Tools](https://search.google.com/search-console/mobile-usability).
If your site's pages aren't mobile-friendly, there may be a significant decrease in mobile traffic
from Google Search. But have no fear, once your site
[becomes mobile-friendly](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites), we will automatically re-process
(that is, crawl and index) your pages. You can also expedite the process by using
[Fetch as Google with Submit to Index](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/ask-google-to-recrawl),
and then your pages can be treated as mobile-friendly in ranking.


Questions? See [our FAQ](https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2015/04/faqs-april-21st-mobile-friendly) or ask
on the
[Mobile Websites section of the Webmaster Forum](https://support.google.com/webmasters/threads?hl=en&thread_filter=(category:crawling_indexing_ranking)).

Posted by [Takaki Makino](http://www.snowelm.com/~t/) and Doantam Phan