See where a site ranks in Google on mobile and on desktop, side by side, with the difference for every keyword. Check any domain live with your own DataForSEO key, or sign in with Search Console to see your own site's mobile and desktop positions.
The live check is free on this page; DataForSEO bills each search to your own account.
Most searches happen on a phone, yet many rank checkers still report desktop. This mobile ranking checker always shows both devices next to each other, so a keyword that ranks well on desktop but slips on mobile stands out straight away.
Paste the keywords you want to look up and open them in GSC Wizard. You sign in with Google, give read-only access to Search Console and pick the property. Your dashboard then opens filtered to those keywords on mobile, with their average position, clicks, impressions, the trend over time and the pages that rank for them. Switch the device filter to Desktop to see the other side; the example below shows the comparison the two views give you.
Free for the 7-day trial, no credit card needed. After the trial you need a paid plan, from €17 a month, because there is no free plan for the web app.
What the report shows
Example data| Keyword | Desktop position | Mobile position | Difference | Mobile clicks | Ranking page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pizza delivery | 8.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 higher on mobile | 2,310 | example.com/delivery/ |
| best pizza near me | 12.4 | 6.8 | 5.6 higher on mobile | 1,480 | example.com/ |
| pizza dough recipe | 3.1 | 5.9 | 2.8 lower on mobile | 390 | example.com/recipes/dough/ |
| opening hours | 2.0 | 2.1 | Same | 205 | example.com/contact/ |
| gluten free pizza | 9.7 | 14.3 | 4.6 lower on mobile | 42 | example.com/menu/gluten-free/ |
Example data for a made-up site, last 28 days. Positions are Search Console averages per device. Search Console reports tablet as a third device.
Enter a domain and up to 20 keywords, then pick the country and language. Every keyword is checked twice against Google's live results through your own DataForSEO account, once as a desktop search and once as a mobile search, and the table fills in as the answers come back: both positions, the difference, the ranking URL and the top 10 on each device.
No DataForSEO key added yet, so the table shows example data. Add your own key to check live rankings.
Results
Example data| Keyword | Desktop | Mobile | Difference | Ranking URL | Top 10 |
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Your DataForSEO login stays in this browser: saved for next time, or only for this tab if you choose. The checks go straight from your browser to api.dataforseo.com and never pass through GSC Wizard. Positions count the organic results DataForSEO returns for the country, language and device you picked, so they can differ from what you see in your own browser, which Google personalises.
Follow your mobile rankings every day
GSC Wizard stores your Search Console data daily and keeps it past Google's 16 months, so you can chart every keyword's mobile and desktop position over time. Free for the 7-day trial, no credit card needed. After the trial you need a paid plan, from €17 a month, because there is no free plan for the web app.
Google ranks pages with one index for both devices, but the results page it builds for a phone is not the same as the one it builds for a laptop. A mobile keyword ranking can differ from the desktop one for several reasons:
With mobile-first indexing, Google crawls and indexes the mobile version of your pages and uses that version to rank them on every device. Google finished moving sites to mobile-first indexing in 2023. In practice that means content, structured data and internal links that only exist on your desktop version may as well not exist.
Which position counts depends on your visitors. Check the device split in Search Console: for most sites mobile brings most of the clicks, so the mobile position is the one that moves your traffic. A keyword that ranks 3rd on desktop and 9th on mobile is a mobile problem first.
Resizing your browser window does not give you a real mobile result, and even the phone view in your browser's developer tools still gets results personalised to you and your location. There are two reliable ways to check mobile keyword rankings:
A one-off check shows today's gap between mobile and desktop. To see whether the gap is growing, you need rank tracking on mobile with history. GSC Wizard stores your Search Console data every day per device, so you can chart a keyword's mobile and desktop position over months, spot the day they split, and line it up with a Google update or a site release.
The device filter works across the reports, from queries and pages to the keywords sitting just outside the top 10, so you can find mobile-only problems without exporting anything.
Google builds a different results page for each device. Mobile pages often show more map results, People also ask boxes and videos, phone searches lean more towards local results, and Google measures page experience separately per device. In Search Console the two averages also come from different searches by different people, so they rarely match exactly.
It means Google crawls and indexes the mobile version of your pages and ranks them on that version, on every device. Google finished moving sites to mobile-first indexing in 2023, so anything that only exists on your desktop version is effectively invisible to Google.
Yes. The Performance report has a Device dimension with Desktop, Mobile and Tablet, and you can filter or compare by it. The position it shows is still an average over the period, not one live search. GSC Wizard shows the per-device positions for every keyword next to each other.
The page is free and needs no sign-up. The live check uses your own DataForSEO account: every keyword is two SERP tasks, one for desktop and one for mobile, billed by DataForSEO at their current rate. The Search Console mode opens GSC Wizard, which is free for the 7-day trial with no credit card needed. After the trial you need a paid plan, from €17 a month, because there is no free plan for the web app.
DataForSEO runs the search as a mobile device from the country and language you pick, without personalisation, and returns Google's mobile results page. Results on your own phone can still differ, because Google personalises them by your exact location and search history.
Only in your own browser. You choose whether it is saved for next time or kept only for this tab, and you can remove it with one click. The rank checks go straight from your browser to api.dataforseo.com, so your login never passes through GSC Wizard.
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