diff --git a/api/index.php b/api/index.php
index 1d8ec9f..7da7d6c 100644
--- a/api/index.php
+++ b/api/index.php
@@ -10,11 +10,14 @@
 	exit;
 }
 
+$description = "API for getting the number of links to any page on any Mediawiki project."
+
 ?>
 <!DOCTYPE html>
 <html lang="en">
 	<head>
 		<title>Link Count API</title>
+		<meta name="description" content="<?php echo $description; ?>">
 		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
 		<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="../static/icon.png">
 		<style>
@@ -22,15 +25,21 @@
 				font-family: sans-serif;
 				line-height: 1.5;
 			}
-			h2, h3 {
+
+			h2,
+			h3 {
 				margin: 0 0 10px;
 			}
+
+			p,
 			ul {
 				margin: 0 0 20px
 			}
+
 			li {
 				padding: 2px 0;
 			}
+
 			code {
 				background: #eee;
 				font-family: inherit;
@@ -40,6 +49,7 @@
 	</head>
 	<body>
 		<h1>Link Count API</h1>
+		<p><?php echo $description; ?></p>
 		<h2>Request</h2>
 		<?php echo (new APIHelpObject(
 			['page', 'string', 'required', 'Name of the page to get the link count for.'],
diff --git a/includes/LinkCount.php b/includes/LinkCount.php
index 6c8cf87..c0126f3 100644
--- a/includes/LinkCount.php
+++ b/includes/LinkCount.php
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <?php
 
 class LinkCount implements HtmlProducer, JsonProducer {
+	public static $description = "View the number of links (wikilinks, redirect, transclusions, file links, and category links) to any page on any Wikimedia project.";
+
 	public $counts;
 	public string $error;
 
@@ -128,7 +130,7 @@ public function getHtml() {
 		}
 
 		if (!isset($this->counts)) {
-			return '';
+			return LinkCount::$description;
 		}
 
 		$validCounts = array_filter($this->counts, function($val) {
diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
index e596ac9..bac393f 100644
--- a/index.php
+++ b/index.php
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 <html lang="en">
 	<head>
 		<title><?php echo $linkCount->getTitle(); ?></title>
+		<meta name="description" content="<?php echo LinkCount::$description; ?>">
 		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
 		<script src="js/" defer></script>
 		<link rel="stylesheet" href="node_modules/oojs-ui/dist/oojs-ui-wikimediaui.min.css">
diff --git a/tests/LinkCountTest.php b/tests/LinkCountTest.php
index dd94870..b4616bc 100644
--- a/tests/LinkCountTest.php
+++ b/tests/LinkCountTest.php
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ public function provideHtmlOutput() {
 			],
 			'no parameters' => [
 				'',
-				'',
+				'View the number of links (wikilinks, redirect, transclusions, file links, and category links) to any page on any Wikimedia project.',
 				''
 			],
 			'no title (error)' => [
