Methodology
Heading hierarchy
ia.heading-hierarchy · 3.2
Read
MUST
Recommendation
AR-READ-03
Why it matters
AI agents use headings to build a content outline and determine topic hierarchy. A clear h1→h2→h3 structure helps AI systems extract and summarize your content accurately.
How to fix it
Use one h1 and do not skip heading levels.
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Give each page one h1 that names the main topic.
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Use h2 for sections and h3 for subsections, without skipped levels.
<h1>Pricing</h1> <h2>Plans</h2> <h3>Team plan</h3>
Verify
Run a new scan for this checkpoint:
isagentready results {domain} --checkpoint ia.heading-hierarchy
Details Mapping, lifecycle and references
- AR mapping
- Partial match
- Evidence source
- agentready.org AR-READ-03
- Score role
- Core
- Introduced
- 2026-08-24
- Revised
- 2026-09-02
- Methodology version
- 2026-10-22