Content issues
Every Content finding Crawl Cove's crawler checks for, each with an example finding and a step-by-step fix.
Content findings are about the page body: the text a reader sees and the structure a crawler uses to understand it. They run from High to Low severity, and the High one is the cheapest to fix.
Missing or multiple H1 tags comes first, because the H1 is the clearest statement of what a page is about. Skipped heading levels and long pages with almost no subheadings are mostly readability and accessibility problems, but the same structure is what lets a search engine, or an AI answer engine, find the section that answers a question.
The other three are about what the body contains. Thin content flags indexable pages with very little text. Near-duplicate content flags pages whose body text is close to identical, so they split ranking signal between them even when their titles differ. And content that depends on JavaScript flags text or structured data that only exists after scripts run, which a crawler reading the raw HTML never sees.
Each page says where its check draws the line, so you can tell a real problem from a page that is short, or similar to another, on purpose.
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Low severity
Wall-of-Text Pages: Long Content, No Subheadings
A long page with almost no subheadings is hard to scan, weaker for AI extraction, and gives search engines less structure to work out what answers a query.
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Medium severity
Near-Duplicate Content: Copycat Pages
Two or more pages whose body text is near-identical split ranking signal between them, even when their titles and URLs are completely different.
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High severity
Missing or Multiple H1 Tags: Why It Matters
A page with zero H1s, or several competing ones. Why exactly one H1 matters for search engines, an example finding, and how to fix it.
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Low severity
Skipped Heading Levels: Why Order Matters
A page that jumps from an H2 straight to an H4. Why skipping a heading level breaks screen-reader navigation, a real example, and how to fix it.
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Medium severity
Content That Depends on JavaScript
Critical content or structured data that only appears after JavaScript runs. What it means, an example finding, and why it puts indexing at risk.
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Low severity
Thin Content: What Counts and How to Fix It
An indexable page with very little body text. What counts as thin, an example finding, and whether to expand a page or merge it with another.
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