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Metadata Audit
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1Validate URL & host
2Connect & read HTTP headers
3Crawl server-rendered HTML
4Inspect search metadata
5Check social & structured data
6Calculate audit score
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Check a public URL to see search metadata, indexability signals, canonicalization, social tags, redirect history and structured-data discovery.
About this free SEO tool
This meta tag checker fetches the server-rendered HTML of a public webpage and surfaces the metadata that search engines, browsers and social platforms may use. The primary focus is the page title, meta description, robots directives, canonical URL and social sharing metadata, with additional checks for hreflang, JSON-LD, charset, viewport, language, favicon links and heading structure.
The score is intentionally an editorial checklist rather than a ranking predictor. A page can rank without receiving 100/100, and some tags are optional depending on the page type and publishing setup.
What this checker reviews
- HTML title and meta description presence and practical editing length.
- Robots, Googlebot and X-Robots-Tag directives.
- Canonical URL presence, count and whether it matches the final URL.
- Core Open Graph fields and X/Twitter card metadata.
- HTTP status, redirect chain, final URL and response content type.
- Hreflang, JSON-LD types, viewport, charset, HTML language, favicon and H1 signals.
How to interpret canonical tags
A canonical annotation tells search engines which URL you prefer as the representative version when duplicate or highly similar URLs exist. It is a signal rather than an absolute command, so the checker flags missing, multiple or non-self-referencing canonicals for review without automatically treating every external or alternate canonical as an error.
Robots directives and indexability
The audit combines robots meta, Googlebot meta and X-Robots-Tag headers for a practical indexability warning. A detected noindex is treated as critical because it can prevent supported search engines from showing the page in results. A missing robots tag is not treated as a problem because default behavior is generally index/follow.
Social metadata completeness
The Open Graph section checks the four core fields commonly expected by the protocol: og:title, og:type, og:image and og:url. It also displays description, image alt text, site name and locale when available. X/Twitter card tags are shown separately so you can see whether the page relies on Open Graph fallback behavior.
Transparent methodology
How the Metadata Score Works
The 100-point score is a transparent checklist: successful HTTP response (10), HTTPS (5), title (15), meta description (10), no noindex directive (10), exactly one canonical (10), charset (5), viewport (5), HTML lang (5), complete core Open Graph metadata (10), X/Twitter card type (5), valid JSON-LD (5) and at least one H1 (5).
Important: this is an ihaan.org editorial audit score. It does not reproduce or predict Google, Bing, Meta, X or any other platform’s ranking or rendering algorithm.
Frequently asked questions
Meta Tag Checker FAQs
What does a meta tag checker inspect?
A meta tag checker reads the HTML and response headers of a webpage to identify metadata such as the page title, meta description, robots directives, canonical URL, social sharing tags and related technical signals.
Does a missing meta description stop a page from ranking?
No. Search engines can create a snippet from page content. A useful meta description still gives search engines a strong source for how the page may be described in results.
What does noindex mean?
A noindex directive tells supported search engines not to include the page in search results. It can appear in a robots meta tag or an X-Robots-Tag HTTP response header.
Is a canonical tag a command?
No. A canonical annotation is a strong hint about the preferred representative URL. Search engines can still select a different canonical based on other signals.
Which Open Graph tags does this checker review?
The audit highlights the core Open Graph properties og:title, og:type, og:image and og:url, plus useful properties such as og:description and og:image:alt when present.
Why can this checker differ from a browser inspector?
This tool analyzes the server-returned HTML. Metadata injected only after JavaScript executes may not appear unless the server also renders it in the initial response.
Tool provenance
Built & Maintained by ihaan.org
This tool performs a direct server-side HTML inspection with explicit fetch safeguards and transparent scoring. It does not use an external SEO API and does not claim access to search-engine ranking systems.
Publisher: ihaan.orgLast reviewed: September 9, 2026Access: Free, no sign-up required