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Google’s John Mueller discussed header elements with a member of the SEO community where he stated the usefulness of using the hierarchical structure when using header elements.

Background context to what Mueller said

Header elements

–

they should be used to indicate what a section of a web page is about.

Also header elements have a ranking order, with the

being the highest degree of importance and the

being the lowest level of importance.

The purpose of the header element is to label what a section of content is about.

The HTML specification allows the use of multiple files

elements. So technically using more than one

it is perfectly valid.

Section 4.3.11 of the official HTML specification states:

“Elements h1–h6 have a heading level, which is given by the number in the element name.

If a document has one or more headings, at least a single heading within the structure should have a heading level of 1.

However, using more than on

it is not considered good practice.

Mozilla’s developer reference page on using headers advises:

“THE

TO

HTML elements represent six levels of section headers.

is the highest section level e

it is the lowest.

…Avoid using more

elements on a page

While using more

elements on a page is allowed by the HTML standard (as long as they are not nested), this is not considered a best practice. A page should generally have a single

element describing the content of the page (similar to that of the document