og:type is missing
Your page has no og:type tag. It is required by the Open Graph spec, and it determines which additional properties platforms will read from your page.
What you are seeing: Nothing obviously broken, but article metadata like publish date and author never appears on cards that would otherwise show it.
What og:type controls
og:type declares what kind of thing the page represents. It is one of the four required Open Graph properties, and it decides which optional properties are meaningful for the page — an article can carry a published time and an author, a profile can carry a first and last name, a plain website carries neither.
Platforms fall back to website when the tag is absent, which is why leaving it out rarely breaks anything visibly. What it does cost you is access to the type-specific properties, because those are only read when the matching og:type is declared.
Which value to use
Use website for landing pages, marketing pages, documentation and anything that is not dated editorial content. This covers the large majority of pages.
Use article for blog posts, news stories and anything with a publication date. Doing so unlocks article:published_time, article:modified_time, article:author and article:tag, which several platforms surface alongside the card.
The spec defines other types including profile, book, video and music. Use them only when they genuinely describe the page — an incorrect type is worse than a generic one, because it invites platforms to look for properties that do not exist.
A dated post
<meta property="og:type" content="article" />
<meta property="article:published_time" content="2026-08-21T09:00:00Z" />
<meta property="article:author" content="https://example.com/authors/jane" />Frequently asked
Does og:type affect how my card looks?
Not directly. The image, title and description drive the layout. og:type determines which extra properties a platform will read, so its effect is on what can appear beside the card rather than on the card itself.
What if my page is both a landing page and an article?
Pick the one a reader would recognise. If it carries a byline and a date, it is an article. If it is evergreen and unsigned, it is a website.
Check your page
Run your URL through the checker to confirm the fix is live and see how the card renders on every platform.
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