title.missing
The page has no <title> element or it is empty.
What to change
Add a unique, descriptive <title> in <head> (about 30-60 characters) that states what the page is about.
The documentation on developers.google.comA 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. An error is a problem that keeps a page out of search or out of answers, or breaks how it shows there. Each finding takes 15 points 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 title.missing
Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"title.missing"
]
}
To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable title.missing on the command, or disableRules: ["title.missing"] to a tool.
More in Titles
All 5 rules- Warning
title.multipleMore than one <title> element is present. - Warning
title.too-longTitle is longer than the configured maximum (default 60 characters) and will be truncated in search results. - Info
title.too-shortTitle is shorter than the configured minimum (default 30 characters). - Warning
title.genericTitle is a framework default or placeholder such as "React App", "Create Next App", "Home" or "Untitled".