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What Google’s own SEO check found

Lighthouse is the audit built into Chrome and into PageSpeed Insights: Google testing a page with Google’s own rules. Its SEO section is short and mostly mechanical — is the page crawlable, does it have a title, is the text large enough to read — which makes the failures worth clearing before you spend effort anywhere subtler.

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Lighthouse SEO checks that failed

What SEOPert detected

Google’s Lighthouse SEO audit reported failing checks on your homepage.

What this means

Google’s Lighthouse SEO checks found issues on your homepage.

How to fix it

  1. Run your homepage through PageSpeed Insights, open the SEO section, and fix the listed items.

If you are handing this to a developer

Resolve the failing Lighthouse SEO audits.

Check it worked. Re-test the homepage at pagespeed.web.dev and open the SEO section: the listed items should pass.

Decide which Lighthouse failure comes first A 30-second exercise. One line is the problem — see whether you would catch it.

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