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'Links do not have descriptive text' does not take internationalisation into account. #15377

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Jacco-V opened this issue Aug 14, 2023 · 1 comment
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'Links do not have descriptive text' does not take internationalisation into account. #15377

Jacco-V opened this issue Aug 14, 2023 · 1 comment
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Jacco-V commented Aug 14, 2023

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https://9cclimbing.be/collections/outlet

What happened?

Lighthouse flags the word 'start' (the Dutch word for 'home') as a non-descriptive link text.

According to the list presented in the documentation (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/seo/link-text/), lighthouse flags the following generic link texts:

  • click here
  • click this
  • go
  • here
  • this
  • start
  • right here
  • more
  • learn more

note that: a) these are English texts, b) 'home' is not among the words in the list.

Since the Dutch term for Home page is Start pagina or Start for short.

The HTML-page in question starts with declaring that the content of the page is Dutch:

<!DOCTYPE html>
   <html lang="nl" (...)>

Yet, the Dutch word for 'home' (='start') is flagged as non-descriptive, even though it should not, because the equivalent English term (='home') is not on the list of non-descriptive link texts.

What did you expect?

I expect lighthouse to take localisation into account, and not flag words from the English list of non-descriptive link texts, as non-descriptive in other languages (where said word have a different meaning).

What have you tried?

not applicable.

How were you running Lighthouse?

PageSpeed Insights

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Aug 14, 2023, 3:45:30 PM

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online

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Links do not have descriptive text 1 link found
Descriptive link text helps search engines understand your content. Learn how to make links more accessible.
Link destination
	
Link Text
9cclimbing.be
1st party	
https://9cclimbing.be
	
'Start'
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