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See your page's headings the way Google does.
Enter any page. We list its H1 to H6 as an outline and check the on-page basics: title, description, alt text, canonical, robots and word count.
What you get
- Full H1–H6 outline
- Missing, extra or skipped headings flagged
- Title, description, alt text and links counted
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Headings, briefly
One H1 that says what the page is. Then H2s for each part.
Headings are the page's table of contents for readers, screen readers and search engines. A missing H1, three H1s, or a jump from H2 to H4 makes the page harder to understand for all three.
- Can a page have more than one H1?
- HTML allows it, and Google copes, but one H1 is clearer. Use it for the page's main topic, then H2s for sections and H3s inside them.
- Does heading order matter for SEO?
- Google says it doesn't penalise skipped levels, but a clean outline helps it and screen-reader users understand the page. It's an easy win.
- Why are some of my headings missing?
- We read the HTML the server sends. If headings are added later by JavaScript, they won't appear here, and some search engines may miss them too.
- What is alt text?
- A short description of an image in its alt attribute. Screen readers read it aloud and Google uses it to understand images. Decorative images should have alt="".
- Writing a better title?
- Preview it in Google with the SERP preview tool.
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