Home page showing as first link after domain name in SERPs

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I've just noticed Google is displaying the breadcrumbs as

domain name > home > page

on internal pages. In my mind it should be:

domain name > page

without the "Home" displayed. See screen print below:

This is the code being used on the page:

<ol id="topBreadCrumb" itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList" itemscope="">
  <li itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem" itemscope="" itemprop="itemListElement"><a href="/" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" itemscope="" itemprop="item"><span itemprop="name">Home</span></a><meta content="1" itemprop="position"> › </li><li itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem" itemscope="" itemprop="itemListElement"><a href="/shop-front-refurbishment/" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" itemscope="" itemprop="item"><span itemprop="name">Shop Front Spray Painting</span></a><meta content="2" itemprop="position"></li>
</ol>

Can anyone make any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

Solution :

Google displays everything correct, according to the code. The Home point is generated by <a href="/" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" itemscope="" itemprop="item"><span itemprop="name">Home</span></a>

If you don't want the Home point in the breadcrumb, your first point should be the next after Home.

Make use of Google's example under https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/breadcrumb

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