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Text too small to read on a phone
If most of the words on your homepage are tiny on a phone, a visitor has to pinch to zoom before they can read anything, and then scroll sideways along every line.
A few small words, like a copyright line, are fine. This is about the bulk of the text.
Worth about 1 point of your 100 for a typical businessAbout 1 hour, by your web person
See for yourself
Read your homepage on your phone at arm's length, without zooming.
How to fix it
- Set body text to at least 16 pixels, and nothing a visitor needs to read below 12.
The technical version, for your web person
legible text. The share of the visible characters on the homepage at 375px set at 12 CSS pixels or larger; 60% or more passes (the old Lighthouse legibility bar). Half a point.
What the check reads. Share of visible characters (text nodes, rendered) with computed font-size >= 12px at 375 CSS px; 60% or more passes (the old Lighthouse legibility bar, PHONE_LEGIBLE_PCT).
This is one of the checks in a YLB Score report. Every report is free, read by a person before it goes out, and written so that you can act on it without us. Ask for yours.