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How many websites pass the Person check?

Based on 597 audited sites · Updated 2026-07-15

1.7%of audited sites pass this check0.5% vs last month

95% confidence interval: 0.9%–3.1%

About This Check

Checks whether Person schema is present in your JSON-LD (if applicable). Useful for personal brands and author entities.

Why This Matters

LLM Discoverability

Person schema is how AI knowledge bases build named-entity graphs; without it, LLMs must guess biographical details from unstructured text, leading to factual errors in AI-generated profiles.

SEO Impact

Person structured data strengthens author entity recognition in Google's E-E-A-T framework, improving the ranking authority of content attributed to that individual.

What To Do Next

98.3% of audited sites need attention on person (587 of 597 sites are warning or failing).

  • Prioritize person on templates that create many URLs, because one template fix can improve a large share of structured data.
  • After changing the page, re-run the audit and compare the observed value for this check instead of relying on visual inspection alone.
  • Use the 1.7% pass rate as a benchmark: if your site fails here, passing the check moves it closer to the visible majority of crawlable, AI-readable pages.

Status Breakdown

1.7%pass(10)
51.1%warn(305)
47.2%fail(282)

Compliance Trend

Daily pass, warning, and failure rates across benchmark snapshots (up to 90 days).

Industry Breakdown

How different industries perform on this check.

8% of audited Travel & Hospitality sites pass this check (n=50), compared with 0% of Media & Entertainment sites (n=84).

Other0% passavg score 67n=7
Retail0% passavg score 78.3n=3
Education3.3% passavg score 71.8n=30
Automotive0% passavg score 73.7n=6
E-Commerce0% passavg score 69.6n=30
Government7.1% passavg score 73.1n=14

Related Checks

Run a free audit to see whether your site passes this check, or browse the leaderboard and the audited-sites directory.