# Missing Open Graph og:type **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [January 26, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360 "2021-01-26T20:28:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bifftannen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@bifftannen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bifftannen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 8:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/1 "2021-01-26T20:28:17Z")
Hi, When checking the Open Graph validation for the site, it seems to be missing the “og:type” field. How can we add this? Thanks Peter ---
**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2021, 9:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/2 "2021-01-26T21:41:05Z")
Per the spec a missing type should be parsed as `og:type=website`, which is what we would end up using. > Any non-marked up webpage should be treated as `og:type` website. But I guess it doesn’t hurt to be specific? #pr-welcome ---
**Author:** ![bifftannen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@bifftannen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bifftannen)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 6:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/3 "2021-06-09T06:40:26Z")
Do you have some sort of roadmap, where we can see when this is planned? I feel like this is a very minor thing, but something that would have a large impact for us. Thanks Peter ---
**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/4 "2021-06-09T20:25:40Z")
Can you explain exactly how it would have a large impact? If the value is missing, the default is correct, per above. Specifying the value of something that is already valid by default doesn’t seem like a good use of our engineering time. ---
**Author:** ![bifftannen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@bifftannen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bifftannen)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2021, 6:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/5 "2021-06-10T06:47:23Z")
First of all, thank you for a very cool product, we really like it. But I’m a bit unsure what you mean? From what I can understand (and I may very well be wrong), the four required Open Graph tags for every page are `og:title` , `og:type` , `og:image` , and `og:url` . But the `og:type` is missing, which is causing our Open Graph validation to fail. It just seems to be a very small thing to add. Adding this would, in our case, improve our ranking search wise and then drive more trafic to our community. ---
**Author:** ![JoshuaH](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joshuah/32/209433_2.png) [@JoshuaH](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JoshuaH)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 1:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/6 "2021-06-11T13:59:31Z")
I ended up adding the tag manually to the ``: Settings \> Customize \> Select theme \> Edit CSS/HTML \> “`` tab” Seems to be validating now! ---
**Author:** ![guidoleenders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/guidoleenders/32/196268_2.png) [@guidoleenders](https://meta.discourse.org/u/guidoleenders)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/7 "2021-06-11T14:03:50Z")
Adding it increased the audit ranking of our forums on [Ahrefs](https://ahrefs.com/dashboard) from 54% to 74%. ---
**Author:** ![bifftannen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/74df32/32.png) [@bifftannen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bifftannen)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 6:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/8 "2021-06-14T06:37:32Z")
Its exactly our ahrefs validation that fails. We can add it manually as suggested by @JoshuaH, but it just seems like such a small thing to fix, so it would be nice to have in the next release. Thanks Peter ---
**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 6:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/9 "2021-06-14T18:18:15Z")
This should solve it [https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f36ecf86f8bc2fe42fda5107663af9d0ae3924e8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f36ecf86f8bc2fe42fda5107663af9d0ae3924e8) ---
**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 11:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-open-graph-og-type/177360/10 "2021-06-15T11:00:17Z")
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