No Twitter card type is declared

InfoConfirmedseo.twitter-card.missing

What this check looks for

The page declares no twitter:card. Most platforms fall back to the Open Graph tags, so a page with good Open Graph metadata usually previews correctly anyway.

Why it matters

Declaring the card type is the only way to choose between a small thumbnail and a large image preview. Without it the consumer picks, and it usually picks the smaller one.

What it costs your score

This check never deducts. It reports a fact — or reports that something could not be verified — and is shown on the report without moving the score.

Severity: info
Default confidence: confirmed
Status when triggered: info
Deduction: 0 points
Family cap: none
Category: SEO
Module: Seo audit
Fix owned by: user
In the ruleset since: 2026.09

How the whole score is calculated

Technical detail

No <meta name="twitter:card"> was found.

This deducts nothing, because the fallback genuinely works: consumers that support the Twitter card vocabulary read Open Graph when the Twitter tags are absent, so a page with a complete og: set will preview.

The single tag worth adding is twitter:card with the value summary_large_image, which asks for the full-width image preview rather than the thumbnail. twitter:site and twitter:creator attribute the card to accounts and are optional.

Note that twitter: tags use name=, whereas Open Graph uses property=. Mixing them up is the usual reason a card does not render.

Standards and references

The Open Graph protocol

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