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Title length

page_titles.over_60_chars
Priority
Low
Severity
Info

What we look for

These page titles (the headline shown in search results and browser tabs) run past 60 characters. Only pages search engines may list are counted.

Why it matters

Search results usually cut a title off around that length, so searchers may miss the words that tell them the page is what they want.

How to fix

Shorten each title to under 60 characters, with the most important words first and the site name, if you keep it, at the end.

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.over_60_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.over_60_chars"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=page_titles.over_60_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.over_60_chars"
}