Readiness check · Enable lane · weight 3
Page language declared
The <html> element has a lang attribute.
- Observed on
- 90%
- Top 1K sites
- 91%
- Top 1M band
- 91%
- Not measured
- 11,345
of 28,750 measured sites
285 measured
4,665 measured
blocked, challenged or not applicable
Why it matters
Screen readers use it to choose pronunciation, and browsers use it to offer translation.
How to fix it
Set lang on the html element (for example lang="en") and on any sections in another language.
How we check
The <html> element has a lang attribute.
Observed: lang attribute present.
Not observed: No lang attribute.
Limit: Based on the homepage HTML delivered to an automated client; scripts that run later were not executed.
By popularity band
| Chrome UX Report band | Observed | Measured |
|---|---|---|
| Top 1K | 91% | 285 |
| Top 5K | 90% | 1,306 |
| Top 10K | 91% | 1,645 |
| Top 50K | 89% | 12,839 |
| Top 100K | 90% | 3,893 |
| Top 500K | 91% | 4,117 |
| Top 1M | 91% | 4,665 |
Categories most likely to do this
Categories least likely
By stack
- Angular100%
- Magento / Adobe Commerce100%
- Astro>99%
- Shopify>99%
- PrestaShop99%
- WordPress on Amazon CloudFront99%
- Next.js on Vercel98%
- WordPress98%
- WordPress on Cloudflare98%
- Next.js on Akamai98%
- Drupal on Cloudflare98%
- Adobe Experience Manager98%
- Next.js on Fastly97%
- Adobe Experience Manager on Amazon CloudFront97%
- Drupal97%
- Next.js on Amazon CloudFront97%
- Next.js on Google edge96%
- Next.js96%
- Next.js on Cloudflare95%
- Sitecore94%
- Nuxt on Amazon CloudFront91%
- Webflow91%
- Nuxt88%
- Nuxt on Cloudflare84%
- Blogger78%
By provider
- Vercel98%
- Fastly96%
- Azure Front Door/CDN94%
- Amazon CloudFront94%
- Cloudflare93%
- Akamai93%
- Google edge90%
- Imperva71%
Popular sites where we observed this
Sources and guides
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