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More than one main heading

The page has several H1 headings. This is not penalised, but it usually means the page's structure is unclear about what its main subject is.

How to fix it

Keep one H1 and demote the others to H2.

When it is not a problem

HTML5 sectioning made multiple H1s technically valid, and this stays informational for that reason. Read it as a hint about structure rather than as a defect to clear.

How Rankelle handles it

  • SeverityInformational. Often correct as it stands, and reported so you can see the pattern rather than so you can clear it.
  • DetectionDetected on a single page while crawling it, then grouped with the other pages under the same URL pattern.
  • GroupingEvery page with this finding under the same URL pattern becomes one cause, with a confidence taken from how much of the pattern is affected. 400 of 400 is a template; 6 of 14 is phrased as a question.
  • LandingThe affected URLs stay under cheap watch. When this finding is gone from all of them, the fix is marked landed without anyone reporting the deploy.
  • VerdictAt landing, comparable untouched URLs are frozen as a control set. Twenty-eight days later the two are compared, and the fix can come back as having done nothing.

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No card, and the free tier does not expire — the first verdict takes about six weeks to arrive.