Event/LocalBusiness Preflight

Inspects Event and LocalBusiness public pages for JSON-LD shape and visible-page consistency signals.

This Actor does not reproduce Google's Rich Results Test and does not guarantee any Google decision. It lists machine-readable missing-field, invalid-format, visible-page consistency, type-absence, and duplicate-conflict signals across many public URLs.

What it checks

• Input from urls, sitemapUrl, or public csvUrl
• Optional targetTypes: Event, LocalBusiness
• Default type mode: check every supported type detected on each reachable page
• Required and recommended property signals from Google Event and LocalBusiness structured-data docs
• Event signals such as name, startDate, location, date/status/attendance-mode formats, ticket offer fields, and visible title/date/location clues
• LocalBusiness signals such as name, address, telephone, url, opening-hours format, geo precision, and visible NAP consistency
• sd.type_absent when an explicitly selected type is not found
• sd.multiple_conflicting when duplicate same-type nodes disagree on key values

Findings

Each finding includes:

• severity
• confidence
• evidence
• caveat
• source URL with query strings redacted
• Google documentation references where applicable

Primary finding IDs include:

• sd.missing_required.<type>.<field>
• sd.missing_recommended.<type>.<field>
• sd.invalid_format.<field>
• sd.type_absent
• sd.multiple_conflicting

Boundaries

This is an informational diagnostic tool for public pages. It does not certify structured data, reproduce Google validation, promise rich-result display, promise eligibility, improve rankings, promise indexing, or represent Google Search Console.

The scanner inspects static HTML JSON-LD. It does not render JavaScript and does not evaluate private, login-gated, CAPTCHA-gated, or non-public pages.

Checksmith Cats is not affiliated with Google.

Billing note

Pay-per-event billing is based on reachable URLs only. Unreachable pages are reported as findings, but they are not counted as checked URLs.

References

• Event structured data: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/event
• Local Business structured data: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/local-business
• Rich Results Test: https://search.google.com/test/rich-results

Related tools

• Local Business NAP Consistency QA - Use when the source is a local-business dataset and NAP consistency is the main risk.
• Structured Data Bulk QA - Use when the site needs broad checks for Product, Article, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, Recipe, or VideoObject markup.
• Social Card / Open Graph Bulk QA - Use when event or venue pages also need share-preview metadata checks.