What is meta data

Posted 14th October 2014 in Meta-data

Meta data is website content that isn’t displayed on a webpage; data that is hidden away behind the scenes.

It includes things like:

It’s stuff that’s not helpful to your people who are looking at your webpage, but very useful when your website is ‘scanned’ by search engines, social networks and other non-human visitors.

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More resources

Here are a couple more resources for you to enjoy. If that’s not enough, have a look at the full list.

  1. Focus priming

    Most people won’t need to know what focus priming is but it’s a useful way to test a website’s accessibility.

  2. How navigation should work for keyboard users

    The web is a network of pages that are linked together, with those links often grouped in a navigation. Here’s how keyboard users traverse navigation.