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Descriptive Page Titles

Descriptive HTML page titles help users quickly understand a web page’s content. Providing unique, concise page titles helps users with disabilities quickly understand a web page’s purpose. Well-written page titles are critical to users with visual disabilities because they are always the first page element announced by screen-reading software.

Example Page Titles

Titles Rating Description
Contact Us Good This title doesn't identify the site or tell who "Us" is.
Acme Incorporated - Contact Us Better A likely unique title, but it does not begin with the most specific information.
Contact Us - Acme Incorporated Best This title is concise, descriptive, likely unique, and identifies the site. It also lists the most specific information first.

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Benefits

These measures allow users with visual disabilities to quickly determine if they are interested in a page’s content. They also provide a descriptive name for bookmarking the page, which doubles as an accurate description for search results.

Best Practices

  • Provide a concise page title that accurately describes the page’s content and purpose.
  • Make sure the page title is unique to your site and any related sites.
    • Note the current subsection of the website where appropriate, as well as the site name.
  • Place the page description text first, followed by the site name(s).
  • Use JavaScript to change the title to appropriately reflect page content for pages where the main content changes dynamically.