---json
{
    "canonical": ":page:description",
    "description": "The page description is a summary of what your page is about. It's used heavily (search engine, page preview, social card,...). This page shows you how to modify it.",
    "h1": "ComboStrap Page Metadata - Description",
    "page_id": "uebrgigl4mz6u2nk4yktp"
}
---


====== Page Description ======


===== About =====
The ''description'' is a summary of what the page is about. 

A page's description might be a sentence or two or even a short paragraph (whereas a [[..:page:title|page's title]] may be a few words or a phrase).

It's a [[..:metadata:metadata|page metadata]] that:
  * is displayed:
      * in social cards ([[..:social:twitter|twitter]], [[..:social:facebook|facebook]], [[..:social:google|Google Rich Result]])
      * in the [[docs:seo:serp|Search Engine Results Page]].
      * in the [[docs:content:link|link default popup]] or the [[docs:content:link#preview|link preview tooltip]]. (Example for this page, hovering over this [[?preview|link]] will show you the description of this page in a tooltip)
  * used in ''text-to-speech (TTS)'' (thanks to [[https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/speakable|Speakable]])





===== Set=====
You can modify the description via the [[docs:metadata:manager|metadata manager]].







===== External Services =====
This component will also create the following ''description'' [[kb>html:meta|HTML meta header]] for the below external services.


   * For [[docs:seo:serp|Search Engine Result Pages (SERP)]] and crawler.
<code html>
<meta name="description" content="The best page on the universe">
</code>
  * For [[..:social:facebook|Facebook]], the ''og:description'' 
<code html>
<meta property="og:description" content="The best page on the universe">
</code>
  * For [[..:social:twitter|Twitter]], the ''twitter:description''
<code html>
<meta name="twitter:description" content="The best page on the universe">
</code>

\\

<note>
The description is not set specifically for the [[..:type:article#Google Rich Result|Article Google Rich Result Card]], they used the ''meta description'' tag.
</note>