No Twitter card type is declared
Updated
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
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
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