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Study finds nearly half of web pages lack link preview tags
Original: Shared a link and got a sad gray box instead of a preview? Nearly half the pages we've crawled skip the tags that make p
A crawl of 33.3 million web pages found that only 52.4% carry Open Graph tags, the metadata that generates rich preview cards when links are shared on social media. Sites without the tags show up as plain gray boxes instead. Even iana.org, the organization that distributes IP addresses, was flagged as missing them.
Why now: Web developers and SEO specialists are discussing how common missing Open Graph tags are, even on major technical sites.
Evidence
- Shared a link and got a sad gray box instead of a preview? Nearly half the pages we've crawled skip the tags that make previews pretty. Only 52.4% of 33.3M pages carry Open Graph tags. Even the folks handing out IP addresses skipped them. cl0q.com/site/iana.org #webdev #SEO… · cl0qsearch.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
API: https://socialmediatrends-api.osmike.com/v1/trends/3059554