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Warning
canonical-missingHomepage declares a canonical URL
What this check means
Checks for a <link rel="canonical"> on your homepage.
Why it matters
Most sites are reachable at several addresses — with and without www, with tracking parameters, with and without a trailing slash. The canonical tag says which one is the real address, so a system citing you links to a URL that will still resolve in a year.
How we detect it
We read <link rel="canonical"> from the parsed homepage and require a non-empty, absolute URL.
How to fix it
Add <link rel="canonical" href="https://yourdomain.com/"> to your document head, using the absolute preferred URL.
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