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Rule page.meta-description.too-short

Expand the meta description to ≥ 50 chars

page.meta-description.too-short is a check in Crawlmind's site audit that grades low-impact issues of this kind. This page explains why the rule matters and the exact fix.

Impact: lowEffort: lowFixable: 1-click

Why it matters

A meta description under ~50 characters reads as a placeholder to both Google and AI assistants: they often ignore it and synthesise a description from page body text instead, which you then have no control over. A real one-sentence summary is the cheapest way to control the snippet.

The fix

```html
<!-- Aim for 140–160 characters. Plain language, one sentence. -->
<meta name="description" content="Crawlmind grades your site for Google + ChatGPT + Perplexity. 70+ checks, 5 minutes, no credit card.">
```

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