Machine-readable semanticsMediumWeight 2
meta description exists
semantics/meta-descriptionWhy this matters
Engines often adopt the meta description verbatim as the page summary. It is one of the few summaries whose wording is entirely under your control.
How to fix it
Which advice applies depends on what the audit found. The label is the condition that triggers it.
missingAdd <meta name="description"> with 50–160 characters saying which question the page answers, rather than a pile of keywords.
shortExpand it to 50–160 characters and write it as one complete summary that stands on its own.
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