Audit Standard / 2026.4

Rule explorer: Audit Standard 2026.4

Every check that defines technical readiness in MaxiMarket Audit Standard 2026.4, exactly as the audit applies it. Open a rule to see what it checks, why it matters, how to fix it, where its authority comes from and how much it counts.

Guides by topic: technical SEO audit rules, AI readiness, structured data and ecommerce product data.

Version: 2026.4
Status: Current
Published: 2026-10-01
Rules: 94
Scored: 74
Observations: 34

Authority levels

Official search-engine requirement: A search engine documents it as required for a specific outcome, such as Google eligibility.; Strongest external authority
Open standard / Schema.org: Defined by an open standard or vocabulary: HTML, WCAG, IETF RFCs, Schema.org, Sitemaps, Open Graph.
Official platform recommendation: Recommended in official platform documentation, such as Google Search Central or an AI platform.
Accepted best practice: Widely accepted practice with a cited source, but no official requirement.
MaxiMarket recommendation: MaxiMarket’s own advice. Never presented as a search engine or platform requirement.; MaxiMarket methodology

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Rules pass or fail. A failed rule becomes a finding in your report; scored rules also count toward the Technical Score.

Headings and semantic structure

SEO-HEADING-001MaxiMarket recommendation · MaxiMarket best practicePage has a top-level headingDocumentWarning when failedNot scoredTechnical SearchAI DiscoveryMachine Readability

What this checks: Whether the returned HTML contains at least one h1 element.
Why it matters: A visible top-level heading helps visitors, assistive technology and automated readers identify the page subject. This is a MaxiMarket content-structure recommendation.
How to fix: Mark up the main page heading, such as the product name, as an <h1>.

Expected: The page has an h1 element that names its main content.
Applies to: Every retrieved page. Non-scoring: a MaxiMarket recommendation.
Authority: MaxiMarket recommendation · MaxiMarket best practiceMaxiMarket recommendation. No search engine, standard or platform requires this.
Technical Score: Not scoredA MaxiMarket recommendation; Google says there is no ideal heading structure.
How MaxiMarket detects it: Reports when the returned HTML contains no h1 element. Headings created by client-side JavaScript are visible only in browser-based audits.
Sources: WCAG 2.2 Understanding SC 1.3.1 Info and Relationships — W3C, verified 2026-09-26

SEO Starter Guide — Google Search Central, verified 2026-09-26

Structured data (general)

STRUCTURED-JSONLD-003MaxiMarket recommendation · MaxiMarket best practiceJSON-LD declares a usable typeStructured dataWarning when failedNot scoredTechnical SearchAI DiscoveryMachine Readability

What this checks: Whether valid JSON-LD declares at least one usable @type.
Why it matters: Schema.org organizes its vocabulary as types with associated properties, and structured data features are defined per type. MaxiMarket flags untyped JSON-LD because consumers cannot tell what it describes.
How to fix: Add an @type with a Schema.org type name to each entity in the JSON-LD.

Expected: Each structured data entity declares a Schema.org type, such as Product.
Applies to: Pages with at least one valid JSON-LD block.
Authority: MaxiMarket recommendation · MaxiMarket best practiceMaxiMarket recommendation. No search engine, standard or platform requires this.
Technical Score: Not scoredA MaxiMarket recommendation; untyped JSON-LD is not invalid.
How MaxiMarket detects it: Reports when at least one JSON-LD block is valid but no normalized @type name is found within the bounded traversal.
Sources: Schema.org data model — Schema.org, verified 2026-09-26