How to check if the typesetting is valid
What is the validity of typesetting
Structured and clean code without mistakes – a sign of high-grade website quality, needed a base for its future development.
Coding validity - is site's html code correspondence to the laid out criteria. Validity standards were developed by The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). |The organization has an online service of an automatic site's code examination.
Special programs – code validators, can also test the typesetting and uncover its bugs.
Signs of a high-quality typesetting
Cross-browser compatibility
Often codes check on validity helps uncover bugs, which affect site appearance. Removal of certain bugs leads to website text items and graphical elements correct display in browsers of different versions and modifications.

High loading speed
Behavioural factors, in line, are a signal for search engines. Also, loading rate of the landing page talks for its quality and affects the auctions result in the Display Network.

Proper micro-marking scanning
Incorrect work of elements on the page, may block a part of the code, including important for SEO information: meta-tags, links, structured data. Correction of micro-marking mistakes will help the robot to automatically extract site's meta-data.
Website's performance without cookies, JavaScript, CSS
Services for validation checking
During the testing website's validator, also takes into account the document type, because HTML versions have differences in their syntax. There are additional options under the search bar, where you can set the charset, document type, and results' display settings.

To typical problems, you can address the missing or incorrect use of indicators, unclosed tags, not specified document type, not set UTF-8, and more.
All in all, the existence of mistakes is typical for the most websites on their beginning step, and the use of validator will help to uncover them and remove. After the typesetting correction ends, to be completely sure in the result, it is needed to check the validity of the site again.

Conclusion
High-quality, structured code often influences the correct display of the website in all browsers, its loading speed, and chances for higher positions in the search results.
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