Site audit reports a meta description as missing when it isn't
TL;DR
The site audit flags a page as having no meta description even when one is present, if the page's <meta name="Description"> tag capitalizes "Description." It should recognize the tag regardless of capitalization, the same way browsers and search engines do.
What is happening?
Auditing https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/graduate/master-public-health/ reports a missing meta description, but the page has a real, well-written one. The tag is written as <meta name="Description" ...> instead of the lowercase name="description". Pulling the same page through DataForSEO's own on-page data returns the description correctly, so the tag itself is fine — the audit's own parser appears to be doing a case-sensitive match on the attribute name.
What should happen?
The audit should treat name="Description" and name="description" the same when checking for a meta description, matching how real browsers and search engines read it.
Site audit reports a meta description as missing when it isn't
TL;DR
The site audit flags a page as having no meta description even when one is present, if the page's
<meta name="Description">tag capitalizes "Description." It should recognize the tag regardless of capitalization, the same way browsers and search engines do.What is happening?
Auditing
https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/graduate/master-public-health/reports a missing meta description, but the page has a real, well-written one. The tag is written as<meta name="Description" ...>instead of the lowercasename="description". Pulling the same page through DataForSEO's own on-page data returns the description correctly, so the tag itself is fine — the audit's own parser appears to be doing a case-sensitive match on the attribute name.What should happen?
The audit should treat
name="Description"andname="description"the same when checking for a meta description, matching how real browsers and search engines read it.