For most local businesses, the majority of visitors arrive on a phone, often while standing in a parking lot deciding where to go. If the site is painful on a small screen, they hit back and pick the next result. Here are the five mobile problems I see most often, with simple fixes.
1. Text that needs pinch-to-zoom. If body text is below about 16px, or the viewport meta tag is missing, people have to zoom to read. Fix: add <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and set a readable base font size with comfortable line height.
2. Tap targets that are too small. Tiny links in a footer or menu items crammed together cause mis-taps. Fix: make buttons and links at least around 44–48px tall with space between them.
3. Full-screen pop-ups on arrival. A newsletter or coupon pop-up that covers the page on a phone is the fastest way to lose a visitor, and Google may treat intrusive interstitials as a negative signal. Fix: delay it, make it a small banner, or drop it on mobile.
4. No obvious tap-to-call or directions. Mobile visitors usually want to call, book or get directions. Fix: put a sticky "Call" button (<a href="tel:...">) and a directions link near the top of every page.
5. Heavy images. A 4 MB hero photo might be fine on office Wi-Fi but crawls on mobile data. Fix: export in WebP or AVIF, size images to the space they fill, use srcset, and lazy-load anything below the fold.
Quick test: open your own site on your phone, on mobile data, and try to call you within 10 seconds. If that's hard, your customers feel it too.
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