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Audit Standard / 2026.5

Rule explorer: Audit Standard 2026.5

Every check that defines technical readiness in MaxiMarket Audit Standard 2026.5, 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
2026.5
Status
Current
Published
2026-10-13
Rules
105
Scored
78
Observations
37

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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Observations

Observations are neutral facts. They are never pass or fail, never warnings, and never part of the Technical Score.

SEO-HEADING-002Observation · not scoredNumber of h1 elementsHeadings and semantic structureTechnical SearchMachine Readability
What is reported
The number of h1 elements in the returned HTML.
Why it is not a rule
Multiple h1 elements are valid HTML, and Google says there is no ideal number of headings.
Sources
SEM-MAIN-001Observation · not scoredMain landmarksHeadings and semantic structureAI DiscoveryMachine Readability
What is reported
The number of main elements and elements with role="main".
Why it is not a rule
A main landmark is one sufficient WCAG technique for exposing structure, not a requirement.
Sources
STRUCTURED-JSONLD-001Observation · not scoredJSON-LD blocksStructured data (general)Technical SearchAI DiscoveryMachine Readability
What is reported
The number of JSON-LD script blocks in the returned HTML.
Why it is not a rule
Not every page needs structured data, and Microdata or RDFa are not detected.
Sources
STRUCTURED-PRODUCT-011Observation · not scoredProducts on the pageProduct and Offer dataTechnical SearchCommerceMachine Readability
What is reported
The number of top-level Product entities that are not variants of a ProductGroup, for pages with Product data.
Why it is not a rule
Listing pages legitimately contain many Products, and page intent is unknown.
Sources
STRUCTURED-OFFER-005Observation · not scoredZero-price offersProduct and Offer dataTechnical SearchCommerceMachine Readability
What is reported
The number of inspected Offers whose price is zero, for pages with inspected Offers.
Why it is not a rule
Zero prices are legitimate for free items and Product snippets; they only affect merchant-listing eligibility.
Sources
STRUCTURED-OFFER-013Observation · not scoredOffer types usedProduct and Offer dataTechnical SearchCommerceMachine Readability
What is reported
For Products with recognized offers: whether they use Offer, AggregateOffer or both.
Why it is not a rule
Marketplace pages legitimately use AggregateOffer, and the number of sellers is unknowable.
Sources
STRUCTURED-RATING-003Observation · not scoredReviews on Organization markupRatings and reviewsTechnical SearchMachine Readability
What is reported
For pages with top-level Organization (or subtype) entities: whether one of them carries review or aggregateRating.
Why it is not a rule
Whether the business controls those reviews is not observable.
Sources
STRUCTURED-BREADCRUMB-003Observation · not scoredBreadcrumbs on deep pagesEntity and site identityTechnical SearchAI DiscoveryMachine Readability
What is reported
For pages other than the home page: whether a BreadcrumbList is declared.
Why it is not a rule
Breadcrumb markup is a MaxiMarket recommendation for deep pages.
Sources
HTTP-STATUS-002Observation · not scoredUnknown URL HTTP responseInformational observationsTechnical SearchMachine Readability
What is reported
Reports the final status of one protected unknown-path probe when available. HTTP 200 is a possible missing-page handling risk, never proof of Google soft-404 classification. Redirect destinations are not followed. Challenges, rate limits, server errors and failed requests are unknown.
Why it is not a rule
A sampled response describes site behavior without proving indexing state. Informational only. Crawls do not run this probe because durable per-origin request reservations are not yet supported.
Sources
HTTP-COMPRESSION-001Observation · not scoredReceived HTML Content-EncodingInformational observationsTechnical SearchMachine Readability
What is reported
Reports Content-Encoding from the received HTML response: gzip, br, deflate, identity or another encoding. Unknown when unavailable. The evaluated body is decoded.
Why it is not a rule
MaxiMarket informational observation, not a Google indexing requirement or a performance measurement. One response does not establish all supported encodings.
Sources
MaxiMarket recommendation without an external source.
STRUCTURED-MICRODATA-001Observation · not scoredAlternate structured-data syntax is identifiedInformational observationsTechnical SearchMachine Readability
What is reported
Reports Microdata itemscope/itemtype and RDFa typeof/vocabulary markers in received HTML and an already available rendered DOM, bounded to 10,000 elements and 64 active vocabulary prefixes. Unknown when inspection is incomplete or a limit is reached. JSON-LD is evaluated separately.
Why it is not a rule
Microdata and RDFa detected. MaxiMarket does not yet validate these formats. Detection is not entity parsing or validation; not evaluated is different from absent structured data.
Sources