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Last tested: 2019-12-02


Desktop Speed Medium
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Element “style” not allowed as child of element “body” in this context. (Suppressing further errors from this subtree.)

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"...script> <style type="text/css"> img.w..."

Bad value “https://api.w.org/” for attribute “rel” on element “link”: The string “https://api.w.org/” is not a registered keyword.

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"...</script> <link rel='https://api.w.org/' href='https://www.geek.com/wp-json/' /> <link..."

Stray end tag “head”.

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Start tag “body” seen but an element of the same type was already open.

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"... </head> <body class="home blog f-topbar-fixed"> ..."

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"... </head> <body class="home blog f-topbar-fixed"> ..."

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