` and meta description. The home page owns the site default; nothing else inherits it silently. A missing description does not leave the slot empty. The search engine writes one, from whatever text it finds first, which is usually the navigation.

An indexable page with no title or description of its own
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Rule · bucket: mechanical · severity: error · detector: metadata · since: v0.14.0
Section: Things to avoid
Group: Search and sharing

Forbidden:
  A route inheriting the site-wide title, or carrying none, so the result page shows a truncated URL or an excerpt of the navigation

Instead:
  Every indexable page has its own `<title>` and meta description. The home page owns the site default; nothing else inherits it silently.

A missing description does not leave the slot empty. The search engine writes one, from whatever text it finds first, which is usually the navigation.