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description.meta-only

Description comes only from <meta name="description">. Level: Tip.

When it is raised

Raised when the description comes from <meta name="description"> because neither og:description nor twitter:description has a non-empty value. For each of those two names only the first tag that has a content attribute is read; if its content is empty or whitespace, that tag counts as absent even when a later tag of the same name has a value.

What it does to a shared link

The card's summary depends on a platform reading <meta name="description">. Facebook, LinkedIn and WhatsApp document og:description as the description tag.

How to fix it

  1. Add an og:description tag; it can carry the same text as the existing <meta name="description">.
  2. The existing <meta name="description"> tag can stay.
<meta name="description" content="A one- or two-sentence summary of what this page offers the reader, written to fall between 100 and 200 characters."> <meta property="og:description" content="A one- or two-sentence summary of what this page offers the reader, written to fall between 100 and 200 characters.">

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