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hreflang alternates are absolute URLs

Low impact · weight 3 · worth up to 0.6 points of the total score

Why it matters

Google requires fully qualified URLs in hreflang annotations. Relative hrefs are ignored without any error, so the language targeting simply never happens and nobody notices.

How to fix it

Replace relative hreflang hrefs with absolute ones, including scheme and host.

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