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A Heading Count Is Only the Start of an Outline Review

DEV Community: html·RadarMakers·about 7 hours ago
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A page can have one H1 and still be awkward to navigate. It can also have many lower level headings for a sensible reason. A useful heading audit records both the ranks and the words, then reads them in order.

I inspected the initial HTML of five live RadarMakers routes on October 30, 2026, around 11:49 UTC. The tools collection has a deeper structure than the other sampled pages. That difference is visible in the data, but interpreting it requires reading the sections.

Start with the observed ranks

Route H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6

/press 1 7 0 0 0 0

/about 1 8 0 0 0 0

/tools 1 9 9 8 0 0

/launch-checklist 1 9 0 0 0 0

/for-sale 1 3 0 0 0 0

Source: retained RadarMakers production responses captured October 30, 2026. Chart: RadarMakers.

Source: retained RadarMakers production responses captured October 30, 2026. Chart: RadarMakers.

The tools response has 27 heading elements in total. Seventeen are H3 or H4. Every sampled route has exactly one H1.…

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