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From: Hash, Colton
Date: Aug 20, 2025 1:03PM

I have read a few sources saying to have the page titles as <h1> and use a span or <h2> for web site titles. The home page can have a different heading structure, where the website title is the <h1>. However, I am also wondering about best practices for this.

Here is a link I have used as a reference from Yale Web Accessibility Resources:
https://usability.yale.edu/web-accessibility/articles/headings

This is still a question I have as well. I manage web pages with a Title for a Government Agency, Division Name and names of Division Subsections all in the Header, along with a unique web page title... so organizing that with multiple heading levels starting with H2 for the website title feels clunky, but it makes sense as a logical structure with H1 for the page title:

<header>
<h2> Government Agency
<h3>Division Name
<h4>Subsection Name
<h1> Unique Web page name
</header>