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Glossary

What is Accept-Language Header?

The browser HTTP header listing the user's preferred languages, the cleanest signal for language suggestions.

In more depth

More reliable than IP geolocation: a German speaker in Tokyo still sends de first.

Why it matters for your website

Understanding Accept-Language Header helps you make better decisions when taking a WordPress site multilingual — from choosing URL structures and engines to controlling costs. Transxlate handles the mechanics (language URLs, lang attributes, caching, hreflang on Pro) so terms like this become settings, not engineering projects.

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