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title: "Heading Hierarchy Errors: 44.8% of Top 1M Pages Skip a Level - PageSpeed Matters"
url: https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/heading-hierarchy-errors
description: "Of 1,119,394 top-1M pages with two or more headings, 44.8% jump a heading level, for example from H2 straight to H4."
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Heading Hierarchy Errors: 44.8% of Top 1M Pages Skip a Level (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/heading-hierarchy-errors)

Of 1,119,394 top-1M pages with two or more headings, 44.8% jump a heading level, for example from H2 straight to H4.

Pages that skip a heading level, by site popularity

Top 1K 32.7%

1K to 10K 36.5%

10K to 100K 41%

Below 100K 45.2%

Source: PageSpeed Matters. HTTP Archive crawl, Sept 2026, mobile, pages with two or more headings.

Sites ranked by Chrome traffic; each band excludes the more popular bands before it.

Source: Heading Hierarchy Errors: 44.8% of Top 1M Pages Skip a Level - PageSpeed Matters (https://www.pagespeedmatters.com/resources/data-studies/heading-hierarchy-errors)