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Remediation

A meta description is present and between 50 and 200 characters.

markup.meta_descriptionreadabilityweight 2deterministicauto-fix available
Why it matters

Agents and search engines fall back to <meta name="description"> when generating snippets. A page without one gets a snippet auto-generated from the first paragraph, which is often boilerplate (cookie notices, navigation copy).

Underlying specification: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/snippet

How to fix
  1. Add `<meta name="description" content="…">` to every page.
  2. Write one sentence per page that summarises the page contents. 120–160 characters.
  3. Make it unique per page; do not reuse the same description site-wide.
Generated snippet

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Generated fixinline snippet→ <head>

AgentSpeed didn't find a meta description, or it was outside the 50–200 character window. Agents read the description as a summary alongside the title. Without it, they fall back to extracting the first paragraph, which is usually marketing copy.

<!-- Place inside <head>. 50–200 characters. Agents use this as a summary. -->
<meta name="description" content="One sentence describing what this page offers and who it's for. Avoid marketing fluff; be declarative." />
paste inside <head>
  • ›Length: 50–200 characters. Under 50 reads like an afterthought; over 200 gets truncated.
  • ›Write it like a search-result snippet: declarative, no marketing fluff, mention the most-distinctive feature first.
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Fix markup.meta_description · AgentSpeed