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Duplicate meta description

meta_description.duplicate
Priority
Low
Severity
Warning

What we look for

These pages use the same meta description (the summary search engines may show under the title) as another crawled page. Pages kept out of search, or that name another page as the one to show, are left out.

Why it matters

Searchers see the same summary under different results, and search engines are more likely to replace a repeated description with text of their own choosing.

How to fix

Write a description in the CMS or page template that sums up each page on its own. If you cannot write them all, remove the shared one, and search engines will take text from the page instead.

Seen in a real crawl

From a crawl of Kestrel Bay Digital (the canonical-variants fixture), a test site from Raptor’s fixture suite.

Low

2 pages share a description with another page

  • /services/x/Duplicate description: Compare the Starter and Growth packages from Kestrel Bay Digital: a new website ...
  • /services/y/Duplicate description: Compare the Starter and Growth packages from Kestrel Bay Digital: a new website ...
Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8003raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

Open this finding in that crawl’s report

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: meta_description.duplicate
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "meta_description.duplicate"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=meta_description.duplicate
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": "meta_description.duplicate"
}