So Google has a special feature now to see if your site is mobile friendly. If you haven't seen it before for some fucking reason you can do so here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/to...friendly/?url=
I looked deep into my traffic and ran a poll on whether or not my surfers who were on "mobile" devices actually wanted a mobile look and feel to the site.
Overwhelmingly the answer was no. Most people hate mobile sites because they look like they were made for old people who also have unusually large clocks and telephone handsets with extra big numbers. Users hate having to scroll forever to get to the bottom of a page for stuff that could have been placed into a sidebar... that is if Google says it is okay to have a sidebar.
While looking at my traffic I came to see a pattern. People who come from shit nations with no money and no way to monetize them have screens in the 176px to 337px range. These people are using crap phones in places like Pakistan. They are worthless to you. Just about the only thing they do that is worthwhile is act like it is still 2002 and leave comments about your posts, content, videos, etc... Something most Americans don't give a shit about anymore. Unless they are also broke.
Many of my mobile users have phones or tablets that view my sites at a minimum of 768px with many over 1000px. So my sites all fit their devices JUST FINE. I hate going to something like xHamster (using an example here) and seeing it have all of the videos in a vertical line I have to scroll through instead of the normal grid desktop users get. It totally pisses me off and I don't use sites with that lame ass layout. From my poll numbers it would seem my surfers feel the same way. Most phones are set up so that you can double click the "small" content in my left column and it will grow it to the same dimensions as your phone. So now it reads smooth and links are not spaced too close together.
Why does Google insist of fucking up a good thing? Is it better to piss off my surfers to get the mobile friendly icon or better to make sure I don't have an icon so that people who don't want the lame ass layout will choose me because I didn't conform? How long until this is another stupid metric that makes no sense when the one that worked great was to let the fucking surfer decide with their click (or tap)?!?!