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Extra H1 heading

headings.h1_multiple
Priority
Low
Severity
Warning

What we look for

These pages have more than one H1 heading (the main heading at the top of a page). Only pages search engines may list are counted.

Why it matters

Several main headings make it less clear what the page is mainly about. Google has said several H1 headings cause it no problems, so this is a tidy-up rather than a fault.

How to fix

Keep one H1 for the page's main topic and change the others to H2 or lower, in the CMS or page template. Logos and side panels marked up as H1 are a common source.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: headings.h1_multiple
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "headings.h1_multiple"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=headings.h1_multiple
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "headings.h1_multiple"
}