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An update on the Structured Data Testing Tool



Tuesday, December 15, 2020

In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is out of beta. In that blog post, we said that the Structured Data Testing Tool would be deprecated. Since then, we’ve heard your feedback and we’d like to give an update on what the future looks like for the Structured Data Testing Tool.

To better support open standards and development experience, we’re refocusing the Structured Data Testing Tool and migrating it to a new domain serving the schema.org community by April 2021. The main purpose of the tool will be to check syntax and compliance of markup with schema.org standards. Going forward however, the tool will no longer check for Google Search rich result types. To test your markup for Google Search rich result types, you can continue to use the Rich Results Test.

As an example, if you are trying to implement http://schema.org/Event markup for the rich event experiences on Google Search based on our documentation, the Rich Results Test and Search Console are the best tools to make sure your markup is valid for Google Search. However, if you only want to make sure that you’re using valid schema.org properties, or validate a type that we don’t explicitly consume at this time (for example, http://schema.org/ExcercisePlan), then you will be able to use the refocused schema.org validator.

If you have questions or feedback, visit our Google Search Central Help Community or let us know through Twitter.



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