Semantic structure
Semantic structure checks whether your page marks its main content, header, footer and navigation with the HTML elements made for them. Those elements tell a machine which part of the page is the content and which is furniture.
At a glance
- Ladder layer
- P4 Authority signals
Is the page worth citing? - Where it is measured
- Free check
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Reading the result
What good looks like, and what a problem looks like.
Good
The main content, header, footer and navigation are each marked with their own element.
Not measured
When this cannot be checked, the result says so and leaves it out of the score. Unknown is not zero.
Typical problems
- The main content is not marked as such.
- The page is built almost entirely from generic containers.
What it cannot prove
- It is a sign of how easily a machine can read the page, not a full validation of its HTML.
Sources and further reading
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