H1 same as title: what it means and how to fix it

What we look for

The first H1 heading (the main heading at the top of a page) on these pages is exactly the same as the page title.

This is common and does little harm. A heading worded a little differently from the title gives you a second chance to describe the page.

Reword the heading or the title in the CMS so the two work together, for example a short heading on the page and a fuller title for search results.

From a crawl of Millbrook Hardware (the broken fixture), a test site from Raptor’s fixture suite.

Low

1 page uses its title word for word as its main heading

Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8001raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

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_same_as_title
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_same_as_title"
The HTML report: This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=headings.h1_same_as_title
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_same_as_title" }