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H1 on the page

A page without any H1 has no explicit top-level heading in the outline.

Pass condition in our engine: At least one H1 is present.

1. Problem description

Some landing pages style a huge <div> as a title and skip headings entirely. Assistive technology then has no heading navigation, and snippet generation is weaker. This check only asks whether an H1 exists — see Single H1 for duplicates.

2. Most common causes

  • Visual heading is a styled paragraph or background image text.
  • The title is injected only via JavaScript.
  • An empty H1 was left in the template.

3. How to fix it

  1. Add one H1 in the server-rendered HTML.
  2. Do not hide the only H1 with display:none if it is the real title.
  3. Keep heading text in the document, not only in an image.

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