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Card class: Non-Hero • Category: Device SEO

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At a glance

Mobile vs Desktop plots your organic search performance split by device on a dual-axis chart for the selected period, letting you see the mobile and desktop curves side by side. For most ecommerce brands mobile is now the majority of organic traffic, so this card tells you how much of your search presence depends on the mobile experience and whether the two device classes are diverging.

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What it tracks

The card draws mobile and desktop organic metrics (clicks and impressions) from Search Console’s Performance report and overlays them on a dual axis for the selected period. The shape of the two lines is the signal: a widening mobile lead is normal as the web shifts to mobile, but a sudden mobile dip while desktop holds steady points to a mobile-specific problem (a usability error, a slow mobile page, or a mobile-first indexing issue), and the reverse points to a desktop-specific one. Because Google indexes mobile-first, a mobile regression usually leads any aggregate decline, so watching the device split gives earlier warning than a blended figure.

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Reconciling against the source

Rebuild this in Search Console by opening the Performance report and adding Device as a comparison or breakdown to see mobile against desktop clicks and impressions; the card overlays those same series. Note Search Console data is typically 2 to 3 days delayed, rare queries are anonymised, and the UI caps at 1,000 rows.

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Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

Mobile vs Desktop is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Google Search Console and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English. Start for free or book a demo to see this metric running on your own data.