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Rendered-page checks

The Audit reads your pages from inside WordPress, which misses whatever the theme and other plugins add on the way out. These checks fetch each published page as a logged-out visitor and look at what came back. The findings appear in the Audit alongside its other lists, each naming the page and showing what was found.

The Audit with a finding that a page is served a different title, shown with the title that was served, and a line under the list saying when pages were last fetched, with a Fetch pages now button

It runs by itself once a week, five pages at a time. Fetch pages now, under the Audit's lists, starts a run straight away.

What it checks​

FindingWhat it meansWhat to do
Mixed contentAn http:// image, script, stylesheet, frame or video on an https:// page. Browsers block it or warn about it.Change the address to https://. The first three are shown.
A different titleThe <title> served is not the one the SEO settings produce: the theme or another plugin is overriding it.Find what is overriding it. The title that was served is shown.
A different canonicalThe canonical served differs from the SEO settings, or there is more than one. Two canonicals can make a search engine ignore both.Find what is adding its own.
Oversized imagesAn image at least twice as wide as the width it is given and at least 800 pixels wide, or any file of 1 MB or more.Use a smaller size, or compress the file.
Language linksA page's hreflang link names another page of this site that does not name it back. Language links only count when both sides agree.Fix the language links on the page shown.

A plain link to an http:// page is not mixed content, so links are not reported.

Limits​

  • Oversized images are judged from the page's HTML, not from a browser's layout. An image that declares no width, or has a srcset (where the browser picks the size), can only be flagged for file size. Only files in your Media Library folder are measured.
  • Language links to another domain cannot be checked, because that site's pages are not read.
  • Only published pages without a password are fetched, and only addresses that answer 200. The count of pages that did not answer is shown beside the button.
  • A page cached by your host or a caching plugin is checked as served, which may lag a recent edit by however long the cache lasts.
  • Each page costs one request to your own site. A run on a large site takes a while on purpose.