meta-description.same-as-title

What to change

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every SEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check audit https://example.com --rule meta-description.same-as-title

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "meta-description.same-as-title"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable meta-description.same-as-title on the command, or disableRules: ["meta-description.same-as-title"] to a tool.

• Warningmeta-description.missingNo <meta name="description"> is present or it is empty.
• Warningmeta-description.multipleMore than one meta description is present.
• Warningmeta-description.too-longMeta description exceeds the configured maximum (default 160 characters) and will be truncated.
• Infometa-description.too-shortMeta description is shorter than the configured minimum (default 70 characters).