ShippedChange check — first crawl stores a baseline

Duplicate canonical tags

What this page tests

Check Duplicate index directives (indexability.duplicate_directives), alert indexability.duplicate_canonical.

Monitored pages newly declare two or more rel=canonical link tags. Search engines may ignore extras or pick unpredictably, which weakens consolidation.

Why it matters

Monitored pages newly declare two or more rel=canonical link tags. Search engines may ignore extras or pick unpredictably, which weakens consolidation.

How the fail is produced

Declares two rel=canonical link tags.

This page is part of the TechDash Test Site used to exercise the TechDash desktop app. Each fixture isolates a single check so you can add one path at a time and see a clear pass or fail. Search engines and users rely on stable HTTP responses, index signals, metadata, and site files. When those signals drift, organic visibility, crawl efficiency, and measurement can all suffer. Keep the homepage as the healthy control origin, then monitor the specific path you want to fail. Substantial body copy is included so thin-content and soft-404 heuristics do not fire unless that is the intended test.