When Google tweaked its search engine in April to favor websites it considered mobile-friendly, initial reports found little impact.
A new study suggests that “Mobilegeddon” was as big a deal as advertised, it just took a while.
The report, from Adobe Systems, found that traffic to non-mobile-friendly websites from Google mobile searches fell 12% in the two months after the changes took effect April 21, relative to mobile-friendly sites. Adobe tracked traffic to more than 5,000 sites, which it divided into mobile-friendly and non-mobile-friendly.