R003: hreflang alternate set lacks any Arabic entry on an Arabic page
Whether the page declares itself Arabic and right-to-left, and whether its title, metadata, canonical and alternates agree with that.
The check
- Id
- R003
- Category
- Document and metadata
- Default severity
- medium
What it looks for
hreflang alternate set lacks any Arabic entry on an Arabic page
How to fix it
Add the Arabic self-reference to the alternate set: <link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar" href="…"> alongside the existing entries.
More document and metadata checks
- R001document direction missing, contradicted, or declared only in CSS
- R002html[lang] missing, non-Arabic, or contradicting detected content
- R004<title> or meta description majority-Latin on an Arabic page
- R005OpenGraph/Twitter metadata untranslated or og:locale missing/invalid
- R006Canonical URL points at a different-locale variant
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