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Thanks Bridget. I think the question eventually is this: If there is a mobile page with hidden content (e.g., collapsed) - and assuming it's hidden in a way that is viewable to Google crawler - does that content get lower importance in ranking even though it is not hidden in desktop? Example: Desktop version of the page has "Keyword1" visibly displayed. Mobile version of same page has "Keyword1" hidden in a collapsed view. Will the mobile version be better ranked for "Keyword1" if it will not be hidden? Even though it's not hidden in the desktop version? If it's hidden in both versions then my assumption is that the answer is yes based on this statement from Google's John Mueller (November 2014): "From our point of view, it's always a tricky problem when we send a user to a page where we know this content is actually hidden. Because the user will see perhaps the content in the snippet, they'll click through the page, and say, well, I don't see where this information is on this page. I feel kind of almost misled to click on this to actually get in there." https://www.seroundtable.com/google-hidden-tab-content-seo-19489.html But I'm not sure if that's still true when it's hidden only for mobile. Appreciate everyone's thoughts on this.

Hi there. ok, Large mount of crawled pages doesn't mean that every single page has been fully downloaded NOT from cache. If that would be happening, Google would bankrupt in two days. Most likely Google checks the difference in cached and live page and updates the information, rather than downloading the whole thing every time it crawls a page. That's why there is a "fetch as Google" and limit on crawl pages. It would depend on which pages those are. If it's one of main pages (like index or main service) - it'd be pretty bad. If it's a page, buried under thousands of other pages, then no, it wouldn't be a problem, however, when google does get to that page, you cut yourself that crawl, since Google bots has limited resources per domain. Basically, you'd be wasting bots resources on that non-responsive page. I'd recommend either fixing it or deleting that page if it's not important. Cheers.