Since Brandon's email a minute ago crossed mine in the ether and did not make it to external lists, I am pasting it here:
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Brandon Black <bbl...@wikimedia.org> wrote: We've merged up https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/214705/1 to address this, and I've purged the caches to ensure the update is fully live already. It should address the issue, assuming that the block on RL's /w/load.php entry point was the only part of the problem. On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Jon Katz <jk...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > +external mobile and wikitech > > Shoot. I meant to send this the external list. For those of you just > joining us, we recently got an email from google letting us know that some > of our pages are now failing the mobile-friendly test, which has an adverse > impact on our search results. It appears that most of our pages are also > blocking style info. > > Google doesn't offer much insight into penalties, but if they're sending > us the email then it is or will have some impact. I'd like to see if we > can better understand the other side of the equation- what is cost of > fixing it? I think Jon's questions below are the ones to start with. > > -J > > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> It's all in the report. We block w/ in robots.txt always have. >> >> There have been a bunch of changes to improve performance of the site >> overall which might have led to that. Mailing this to the public mailing >> list wikitech would give you a better idea. >> >> Our site /is/ mobile friendly it's just we tell google not to load styles >> from w/load.php so no need to panic. >> >> The question is what is the penalty of us failing this tool? Does it >> impact our google search rankings? >> >> Fix is trivial.. Update robots.txt but first the question is why are we >> blocking scripts and styles on that url? >> On 29 May 2015 1:17 pm, "Jon Katz" <jk...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> >>> Hi Readership team and broader community, >>> Any changes we might have recently made to cause this warning to appear >>> about googlebot not being able to access our site? >>> I consider this to be a very serious issue. >>> The examples below are not mobile, but same issue applies when you try >>> an en.m. version of the pages. >>> >>> Best, >>> Jon >>> >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Wes Moran <wmo...@wikimedia.org> >>> Date: Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:47 PM >>> Subject: Mobile Firendly >>> To: Jon Katz <jk...@wikimedia.org> >>> Cc: Adam Baso <ab...@wikimedia.org> >>> >>> >>> Jon, >>> >>> Google notified us of the followin... >>> >>> "We recently noticed that there was a change with how you embed CSS & JS >>> which results in us not being able to use the CSS & JS to recognize what >>> the page looks like. That's making some of your pages fail the >>> mobile-friendly-test, for example. You used to load CSS & JS from >>> bits.wikimedia.org, but now they're loaded through /w/load.php?... >>> directly from the Wikipedia host, where that path is blocked by robots.txt. >>> >>> You can see how we render the pages with Fetch as Google in Webmaster >>> Tools / Search Console, you can also see most of that with the test-page at: >>> >>> https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FBusot >>> >>> Some of the pages still pass the test there (example >>> <https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FZ%25C3%25BCrich>), >>> but the CSS is broken there too since it's blocked. " >>> >>> Any ideas what can be causing this? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Wes >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> reading-wmf mailing list >>> reading-...@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-wmf >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> reading-wmf mailing list >> reading-...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/reading-wmf >> >> >
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