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Free H1 Checker

Paste a draft H1 or pull one from a live URL. Length, keyword fit and a full checklist score as you type — this is the heading a model reads when it decides what your page is called.

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  • H1 is not empty
  • Single H1 on the page
  • Length within 20–70 characters
  • Target keyword detected
  • No ALL CAPS abuse

Analyzed H1

Free H1 Checker - Test & Analyze Your H1 Tags

How it works

  1. Paste a draft H1, or check a live URL

    Switch to Paste to test a draft, or From URL to pull live H1 tags from any page.

  2. Add your target keyword

    Enter the keyword you want the page to rank for and we confirm whether it appears in the H1.

  3. Read the inline analysis

    Watch the character count, status badge, and checklist update in real time as you type.

The heading engines use to label your page.

Four things the H1 decides that most heading checkers never mention.

  1. What the H1 is for

    The one heading a reader and a crawler both see.

    The H1 is the main heading rendered on the page, normally the first large line above your opening paragraph. That visibility is the point: the title tag is written for the results page, the H1 is written for the page itself — and it is the line both a reader and a crawler treat as the page's name.

  2. H1, title tag, and everything under them

    Three jobs that should not be the same sentence.

    The title tag sells the click from the results page. The H1 confirms, once someone has arrived, that they landed where they meant to. H2 to H6 break what follows into sections a model can quote from individually. Making the title and H1 identical wastes one of the two chances you get to describe the page.

  3. How it becomes a topical signal

    It decides which of your pages answers which query.

    An engine reads the H1 as a compact statement of what the page covers, and uses it to pick between pages on your own site. Two pages headed “Pricing” and “Plans and pricing” are competing for the same intent — and the engine, not you, decides which one it shows.

  4. Why it shapes how you get cited

    It supplies the words in “according to…”.

    When an AI answer attributes something to your page, the phrase it uses to name that page usually comes from the H1. A precise heading gets you cited as the thing you are; a heading that reads “Welcome” or repeats your brand name leaves the model to invent a label — and it will.

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Do & avoid

Six rules for a heading that gets quoted.

The checklist above scores length and keyword fit. These are the judgement calls behind it.

  1. Exactly one H1 per page

    One unambiguous main heading. Frameworks that wrap every card or banner in an H1 are the usual culprit — check the rendered page, not the design.

  2. Making it identical to the title tag

    You get two sentences to describe the page. Spending both on the same words covers one query instead of two.

  3. Name the topic, not the company

    “Invoicing for freelancers” is a page a model can cite for something. Your brand name alone is a page it can only cite as “their site”.

  4. Generic headings like “Welcome”

    They tell a reader nothing and give an engine nothing to match a query against, which leaves the page competing on the strength of its body text alone.

  5. Keep it between 20 and 70 characters

    Under twenty is rarely specific enough to be distinct from your other pages; over seventy stops being a heading and starts being a sentence.

  6. Shipping a page with no H1 at all

    More common than it sounds on landing pages built from visual blocks — a heading styled to look large is not an H1 unless the markup says so.

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H1 checker FAQ

Paste mode scores in the browser. From URL uses the public fetch-page endpoint, then the same checklist.
No. Full results are forever free with no account.
Multiple H1s are flagged — prefer a single clear primary heading for citation-ready pages.

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