The title is nowhere in the H1
Pages whose title shares no distinctive word with the H1. The title and the headline should describe the same page. When they do not, one of them is usually a template default nobody changed.
NoticeCONTENT-003 · Content · checked on every page
Where it usually comes from
Titles written for search in an SEO plugin and headlines written for the page in the editor, by different people at different times.
How to fix it
- Make the title and the H1 say the same thing in different lengths: the H1 for the reader on the page, the title for the results.
- Keep the page’s main subject — the product name, the service, the topic — in both.
- If the title is a template default such as the shop name alone, give the template a title field per page.
How to check it yourself
Compare the text in the browser tab with the main heading on the page. They should be recognisably about the same thing.
What it looks like in a report
Notice The title and the H1 share no word at all. · evidence: "Home" / "Handmade leather bags"
The title is a default nobody changed; the headline says what the page is. (An example shop; the numbers are illustrative.)
How the audit counts it
CONTENT-003 is a notice in the content category, and weighs lightly in that category’s score. When it appears on many pages built from the same template, the report shows it once, with the number of pages it covers — because one change in the template fixes all of them.
If the finding is deliberate on your site, it can be accepted as intentional in the report. It then leaves the list and the score, and comes back on its own if what it shows changes.
Other content checks
- Thin content · CONTENT-001
- Images without alternative text · CONTENT-002
- Very low text-to-HTML ratio · CONTENT-004
- Duplicate titles · CONTENT-005
- Duplicate meta descriptions · CONTENT-006
- A template settles just under the line · CONTENT-007
- Pages that repeat each other’s text · CONTENT-008
Find it on your site
A Trakis audit runs this check and the other 65 on your site, and tells you on how many pages each one sits. Or go back to all the rules.