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Find the tag that breaks a page on mobile

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Two thirds of this shop's visitors are on a phone, and on a phone the page loads zoomed out with text too small to read.

Which line is causing it?

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<meta name="viewport" content="width=1200">

This is the one. It tells a phone to pretend it is 1200 pixels wide, so the whole desktop layout gets shrunk to fit. What you want is width=device-width, initial-scale=1 — use the real width of the actual device.

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