Topical relevance quietly thins out
The H1 is one of the strongest statements about what a URL is about. Lose it and the page competes for its target queries with one hand tied.
Heading monitoring
Danger
A missing H1 weakens the page for the queries it was built for
A template that drops the <h1>, a redesign that swaps it for a styled <div>, a translation that overwrites it — the page still renders, and the cost shows up weeks later in lost positions.
Danger severity: you get the alert within the hour, not in tomorrow's digest.
What it may cost you
Heading regressions are common after redesigns and theme updates, and invisible from the front end.
A redesign is the usual cause
Nothing in a visual QA pass flags a heading that became a styled div. It looks identical on screen and reads as nothing to a crawler.
More than one H1 dilutes the signal
Search engines tolerate it, but it usually means a template bug — and the page no longer says one clear thing.
How an alert reaches you
Three steps, running every day, on something nobody looks at twice a year.
1
Every run
Baseline stored
The first crawl saves the headings you monitor on each URL as it should be. That value is what every later run is compared against.
2
Next morning
Change detected
The heading text is extracted and compared, and Wygard counts how many headings match at that level.
3
Within the hour
Alert in your inbox
Danger-level findings go out right after the crawl batch. Milder ones wait for the daily digest, so the urgent one stands out.
You decide what counts as broken
The stored value is your desired state, not a guess. When a later run differs you get both versions side by side — and if the change was intentional, one click adopts it as the new baseline.
Severity matches the damage
This one reaches you within the hour, because the damage starts before the next digest would arrive. Every test's severity can be overridden per site, so your inbox stays useful.
Set it once, then leave it
Pick the frequency and the user agent Wygard should send, switch on JS rendering if your pages need it, and the rest needs no attention.
What we check
The H1 check is on by default. Subheading checks are opt-in, so you watch only the ones that carry meaning.
| Test | What it catches | Scope | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|
| H1 — heading | The text changed, no <h1> was found, or more than one was detected. |
URL · Basic | Danger |
| H2+ headings | A subheading at the level you chose changed, disappeared, or appeared more than once. | URL · Basic | Heads-up |
Questions about heading monitoring
What the checks do, and what they don’t.
Which heading levels can I watch
H1 by default, and any of h2 to h6 that you enable per URL.
Why are subheadings only Heads-up
A subheading drift is usually a content or layout decision worth reviewing, not an emergency. The H1 check stays at Danger.
Does it check heading order
No. The check watches the text and the count at the level you configured.
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