The public methodology explains how to interpret the complete result, including its validation layers, authority precedence, severity, current bundle versions and source observation dates. It also records known limitations, robots handling, rendering conditions, privacy controls, correction policy and the relationship between those parts.
Individual findings link to authorities and primary sources. That transparency makes a conclusion reviewable without exposing proprietary rule implementation or the internal source-mapping methods that distinguish the product.
01How the register is used.
The register below identifies the external authorities reflected in this document. Production rule bundles retain the precise source location, observation date and version metadata behind each rule; the register is the public orientation layer, not a substitute for that evidence. It offers external reviewers a direct route into the governing material cited throughout the finished operating product.
02The register.
Internet standards.
- RFC 8259: JSON Data Interchange FormatGoverns JSON grammar and duplicate-name interoperability handling.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- RFC 8785: JSON Canonicalization SchemeSupports deterministic post-parse content identity.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8785rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- RFC 6901: JSON PointerSupplies source-value location syntax within result evidence.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6901rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- RFC 9309: Robots Exclusion ProtocolInforms anonymous URL retrieval and crawl-policy evidence.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- RFC 9457: Problem Details for HTTP APIsDefines machine-readable service error envelopes.www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9457rfc-editor.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
W3C recommendations.
- W3C JSON-LD 1.1Governs JSON-LD syntax, data model, HTML embedding and security considerations.www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- W3C JSON-LD 1.1 Processing Algorithms and APIGoverns expansion, document loading, extraction and normative processing errors.www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-api/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- W3C SHACLDefines RDF graph validation against governed constraint shapes.www.w3.org/TR/shacl/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- W3C WCAG 2.2Defines the public-interface accessibility assurance target.www.w3.org/TR/WCAG22/w3.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
Schema.org.
- Schema.org data modelDefines types, properties, hierarchy, domains, ranges and value multiplicity.schema.org/docs/datamodel.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- Schema.org developer documentationSupplies machine-readable release data and identifier guidance.schema.org/docs/developers.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- Schema.org releasesIdentifies release 30.0 and its publication date.schema.org/docs/releases.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- Schema.org working processDefines core, pending and release-status handling.schema.org/docs/howwework.htmlschema.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
Google Search documentation.
- Google structured-data testing guidanceSeparates generic Schema.org validation from Google rich-result testing.developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/rich-results-testdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- Google general structured-data policiesDefines published technical and page-policy conditions.developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policiesdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- Google Search GallerySupplies the supported structured-data feature documentation set.developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/search-gallerydevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- Google Search documentation updatesRecords continuing feature and property changes.developers.google.com/search/updatesdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- Google JavaScript SEO guidanceSupports raw and rendered comparison plus crawl findings.developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/javascript/javascript-seo-basicsdevelopers.google.comWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
Security guidance.
- OWASP SSRF Prevention Cheat SheetSupports layered public-URL destination controls.cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Server_Side_Request_Forgery_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.htmlcheatsheetseries.owasp.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat SheetSupports safe source display and output encoding controls.cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Cross_Site_Scripting_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.htmlcheatsheetseries.owasp.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
Tooling and reporting.
- Playwright container guidanceSupports sandboxed, non-root handling of untrusted page rendering.playwright.dev/docs/dockerplaywright.devWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
- OASIS SARIF 2.1.0Defines the standard used for static-analysis interchange.docs.oasis-open.org/sarif/sarif/v2.1.0/sarif-v2.1.0.htmldocs.oasis-open.orgWe do not enable external links - please copy and paste, you are then certain as to the link being opened
03No artificial eligibility promise.
A Google consumer result says whether the published technical requirements were met under the recorded rule bundle. It does not promise indexing, ranking or a rich-result appearance; Google’s own policies separate those outcomes from technical validation.
Questions of usefulness, reputation, deception and overall page quality still require human judgement. Where the available evidence cannot settle a policy question, the product says so. Absence of evidence becomes neither an invented failure nor an implied approval. The recorded boundary makes that limit explicit, preventing policy judgement from being mistaken for a machine-certified conclusion at any point in the result.