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html lang: The 30-Second Accessibility and SEO Fix

The lang attribute tells browsers, screen readers, and search engines what language the page is in. Missing it costs accessibility and hreflang decisions.

How to fix it

  1. Set <html lang="en"> (or your locale) in the template.
  2. One attribute on the root element — not per-section guessing.
  3. For multi-language sites, this is the anchor hreflang logic reads.

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