Audit rules

Duplicate Meta Description

Several indexable pages of the crawl share the same meta description. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has info severity and is left out of the score. Below are the exact condition, its exceptions and the sources behind it, followed by the other rules of the same group.

01 — Definition

How This Rule Is Checked

The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.

Rule Severity and Score

Rule id: site.duplicate_meta_description
Group: Site (Crawl)
Severity of a failure: Info
Counts in the score: No, the site rules of a crawl are left out of the score
Required for a score: No

Condition and Exceptions

Condition: Two or more audited, indexable pages have the same non-empty meta description → fail (info) on each of them
Exceptions: Pages without a meta description are reported by meta_description.missing instead

Sources

Sources: How to Write Meta Descriptions (Google Search Central, Q27)

02 — Site (Crawl)

Other Rules in This Group

The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.

Duplicate Titlesite.duplicate_title
Internal Link to an Error Pagesite.broken_internal_link
Internal Link Through a Redirectsite.redirect_internal_link
Invalid Sitemapsite.sitemap_invalid
Sitemap URL Not Indexablesite.sitemap_url_not_indexable
Hreflang Without Return Linksite.hreflang_not_reciprocal
Orphan Pagesite.orphan_page
Deep Pagesite.click_depth