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page_titles.below_30_chars
Priority
Low
Severity
Info

What we look for

These page titles (the headline shown in search results and browser tabs) are shorter than 30 characters. Only pages search engines may list are counted, and text in wide scripts such as Chinese is skipped.

Why it matters

A very short title often leaves out what the page offers, so it gives searchers and search engines little reason to choose it.

How to fix

Expand each title in the CMS or page template to name what the page offers, for example the product or service and the place, with the most important words first.

Seen in a real crawl

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

Low

1 page has a very short title

  • /soft-40414 characters: Page not found
Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8001raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

Open this finding in that crawl’s report

It also fired on the js-heavy fixture.

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: page_titles.below_30_chars
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "page_titles.below_30_chars"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=page_titles.below_30_chars
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": "page_titles.below_30_chars"
}