Missing Body Tag
What This Means
The document has no <body> element. All visible content exists but is not wrapped in the required body element.
Why It Matters for SEO
Without a <body> element, browsers apply error recovery to determine where the body content begins. While modern browsers handle this gracefully for display, it can affect JavaScript behavior (document.body may be null in some edge cases) and structured parsing by crawlers that expect standard document structure.
What the Platform Checks
Checks for the existence of a <body> element in the parsed document. Fires when absent.
How to Fix It
Add a <body> element wrapping all visible content. In template systems: ensure the layout template opens and closes <body> correctly around all content renders.
Find every pagemissing a body element
The audit identifies pages without a body element — fundamental HTML structure issues.