v0.0.86

Three rules about the gap between what your markup claims and what your pages actually show. Structured data is a promise made to a machine that never reads the page, so nothing in a per-page validity check can tell you the promise is false: a rating block is well-formed whether or not anyone can see a rating, and a lastmod is a valid date whether or not anything changed that day. These rules ask the second question.

The engine is now at 275 rules across 21 categories.

Added

• schema/rating-scope reports AggregateRating markup that is not about the page it sits on. schema/review validates the shape of a rating block, so one sitewide rating emitted by a template passes on every page of a site, including the privacy policy. Two checks: whether a rating is visible anywhere in the page's own text, and whether the rated entity is the subject of a page where a rating could apply at all. A third-party review widget clears the first, since its badge is injected client-side and a raw crawl cannot see it. The finding names the page type and the rated entity, and frames the risk as a structured-data manual action rather than a validation error, because that is what it is.

• crawl/sitemap-lastmod-drift reports sitemap lastmod values that disagree with the page's own date. Two directions, because they come from different mistakes: a lastmod older than the page's dateModified usually means a stale sitemap or an inverted published/updated precedence, and one newer by more than a month usually means the field is stamped when the site builds. Each finding reports both dates and the gap in days. Pages carrying no date of their own are skipped rather than guessed at.

• crawl/sitemap-lastmod-churn reports lastmod values that have collapsed onto one or two days across the whole sitemap, which means they are stamped at build time and carry no freshness signal at all. Google News sitemaps are excluded: they hold about 48 hours of articles by design, so their dates are supposed to cluster.

Fixed

• Anchor text is judged per destination, not per link. A card that links to the same page twice, once from its image and once from its headline, was reported as having empty anchor text for the image link. Only one link in such a group needs to describe the destination, and screen readers announce the group together, so the checks now evaluate links to a target as a unit.