Hreflang Tag Checker [2025]

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Validate your website's `hreflang` tag implementation to ensure correct international SEO targeting.

✓ Check Tag Syntax✓ Validate Language/Region Codes✓ Detect Common Errors✓ Verify Absolute URLs

Hreflang Tag Checker

Why Check Hreflang Tags?

`hreflang` tags are crucial for websites targeting multiple languages or regions. They tell search engines like Google which language and regional version of a page to show to users based on their location and language settings. Incorrect implementation can lead to:

  • Search engines showing the wrong language version of your page to users.
  • Duplicate content issues if search engines see multiple versions as separate, competing pages.
  • Poor user experience and potentially lower rankings in specific regions.
  • Wasted crawl budget if search engines crawl incorrect or non-canonical versions.

This tool helps you identify common mistakes in your `hreflang` setup so you can fix them and improve your international SEO performance.

What This Tool Checks

Validation Checks

  • ✓ Presence of `hreflang` and `href` attributes.
  • ✓ Basic format of language/region codes (e.g., `en`, `en-US`).
  • ✓ Requirement for absolute URLs in `href` attributes.
  • ✓ Detection of duplicate language codes or target URLs.

Common Issues & Warnings

  • ✓ Checks if any `hreflang` tags were found at all.
  • ✓ Warns if the recommended `x-default` tag is missing.
  • ✓ Warns if no self-referencing tag is found.
  • ✓ Reports fetch errors or non-HTML content types.
  • Note: Does not check for return tags (bi-directional linking) or validate language codes against actual languages.

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