This report lists structured data found on your site that could not be parsed because of a serious syntax error. The intended type of structured data (Job, Event, and so on) could not be determined because of the parsing error.
This report will be available in your property only if Google found unparseable structured data on your site.
Using the report
All items in this report are critical structured data errors; there are no warnings or valid items.
Errors are automatically sorted by severity as determined by most affected pages and other factors.
The most common cause of a single error affecting multiple pages is an underlying template error.
- Click an error row to see affected pages, error details, and links for debugging tools. See the full descriptions of the error types in the table below.
- Use the Rich Results test to fix and test the syntax of your structured data. If you are having problems finding the error, try starting from an empty object, then add back content from your broken code piece by piece until you find the error. See the structured data documentation for specific data types to fix any result-specific errors.
- After you have fixed an issue, click Validate Fix in the error details page.
Note that after you fix a parsing error, you might trigger additional warnings or errors that were hidden because the item could not be parsed at all.
Sharing the report
You can share issue details in the coverage or enhancement reports by clicking the Share 
button on the page. This link grants access only to the current issue details page, plus any validation history pages for this issue, to anyone with the link. It does not grant access to other pages for your resource, or enable the shared user to perform any actions on your property or account. You can revoke the link at any time by disabling sharing for this page.
Exporting report data
Many reports provide an export button 
to export the report data. Both chart and table data are exported. Values shown as either ~ or - in the report (not available/not a number) will be zeros in the downloaded data.
Error types
The following error types are exposed by this report.
| Error type | Description |
|---|---|
| Invalid JSON document | The JSON had a top-level syntax error. |
| Incorrect value type | The value specified for a field was of the wrong type. For example, you specified a string when a number or array was expected. See the structured data documentation to learn the required value type for that specific field. |
| Parsing error: Missing ':' | Missing a ':' mark between a field and value. |
| Parsing error: Missing ',' or '}' | Missing a comma or closing brace. |
| Parsing error: Missing '}' or object member name |
Missing a closing brace or object member name. |
| Parsing error: Missing ',' or ']' in array declaration | Error parsing an array value: missing a comma or closing bracket in an array declaration. |
| Unable to parse token length | For some reason the start and end of a property or value could not be found. |
| Invalid number | Property value expected to be a number, but another value type was used. |
| Empty escape sequence in string |
A string value include an empty escape sequence character: for example:
rather than
|
| Bad escape sequence in string |
An invalid escape sequence used in a string value. For example: "description" : "Some \q unknown sequence" |
| Truncated Unicode character | Missing the last 6 characters in a Unicode surrogate pair. |
| Invalid Unicode character | Missing a \u token at the start of the second half of a Unicode surrogate pair. |
| Invalid Unicode escape sequence: four digits expected | A Unicode escape sequence has a syntax error: it should contain four digits. |
| Invalid Unicode escape sequence: hexadecimal digit expected | A Unicode escape sequence has a syntax error: a hexadecimal digit was expected but not provided. |
| Duplicate unique property | You provided two definitions for a unique property in your structured data object. For example, two @context values. |
| Invalid top level element | A top-level item in your JSON-LD is invalid. |
| Reference to nonexistent item | An itemref attribute points to a non-existent identifier. |
Issue details page
Selecting an issue row in a rich result summary page opens a page that contains details for that issue. An issue can affect items on different pages or multiple items on a single page.
The issue details page contains the following information:
- State
- Validation state of this issue.
- First detected
- The date when this issue was first detected on your site. If all issues of this type are resolved, and then a new instance of this issue appears within 90 days since the last instance was fixed, the date will be original first detected date, not date of the new appearance.
- Examples
- A list of rich results affected by this issue. It's possible that not all instances of an issue on your site will be listed for various reasons, such as instances that have appeared since the last crawl of your site, or issues that affect more than 1,000 items.
- Last crawled
- The last time the page containing this issue was crawled.
Why validate
Telling Google that you have fixed all issues in a specific issue status or category has the following benefits:
- You'll get an email when Google has confirmed your fix on all URLs, or conversely, if Google has found remaining instances of that issue.
- You can track Google's progress in confirming your fixes, and see a log of all pages queued for checking, and the fix status of each URL.
It might not always make sense to fix and validate a specific issue on your website: for example, URLs blocked by robots.txt are probably intentionally blocked. Use your judgment when deciding whether to address a given issue.
You can also fix issues without validating; Google updates your instance count whenever it crawls a page with known issues, whether or not you explicitly requested fix validation.
Start validation
To tell Search Console that you fixed an issue:
- Fix all instances of the issue on your site. If you missed a fix, validation will stop when Google finds a single remaining instance of that issue.
- Open the issue details page of the issue that you fixed. Click the issue in the issues list in your report.
- ⚠️ If you are filtered to a specific sitemap in your report, the validation will apply only to items in the sitemap at the time you requested validation. This might be what you want, or it might not. Just be aware of it.
- Click Validate fix. Do not click Validate fix again until validation has succeeded or failed. More details about how Google checks your fixes.
- You can monitor the validation progress. Validation typically takes up to about two weeks, but in some cases can take much longer, so please be patient. You will receive a notification when validation succeeds or fails.
- If validation fails, you can see which URL caused the validation to fail by clicking See details in the issue details page. Fix this page, confirm your fix on all URLs in Pending state, and restart validation.
When is an issue considered "fixed" for a URL or item?
An issue is marked as fixed for a URL or item when either of the following conditions are met:
- When the URL is crawled and the issue is no longer found on the page. For an AMP tag error, this can mean that you either fixed the tag or that the tag has been removed (if the tag is not required). During a validation attempt, it will be labeled Passed.
- If the page is not available to Google for any reason (page removed, marked noindex, requires authentication, and so on), the issue will be considered as fixed for that URL. During a validation attempt, it is categorized in the Other validation state.
Issue lifetime
An issue's lifetime extends from the first time any instance of that issue was detected on your site until 90 days after the last instance was marked as gone from your site. If ninety days pass without any recurrences, the issue is removed from the issues table.
An issue's First detected date is the first time the issue was detected during the issue's lifetime, and does not change. Therefore:
- If all instances of an issue are fixed, but a new instance of the issue occurs 15 days later, the issue is marked as open, and first detected date remains the original date.
- If the same issue occurs 91 days after the last instance was fixed, the previous issue was closed, and so this is recorded as a new issue, with the first detected date set to the new detection date.
Here is an overview of the validation process after you click Validate Fix for an issue. This process can take several days or even longer, and you will receive progress notifications by email.
- When you click Validate Fix, Search Console immediately checks a few pages.
- If the current instance exists in any of these pages, validation ends, and the validation state remains unchanged.
- If the sample pages do not have the current error, validation continues with state Started. If validation finds other unrelated issues, these issues are counted against that other issue type and validation continues.
- Search Console works through the list of known URLs affected by this issue. Only URLs with known instances of this issue are queued for recrawling, not the whole site. Search Console keeps a record of all URLs checked in the validation history, which can be reached from the issue details page.
- When a URL is checked:
- If the issue is not found, the instance validation state changes to Passing. If this is the first instance checked after validation has started, the issue validation state changes to Looking good.
- If the URL is no longer reachable, the instance validation state changes to Other (which is not an error state).
- If the instance is still present, issue state changes to Failed and validation ends. If this is a new page discovered by normal crawling, it is considered another instance of this existing issue.
- When queued URLs have been checked for this issue and found to be fixed of this issue, the issue state changes to Passed. However, even when all instances have been fixed, the severity label of the issue doesn't change (Error or Warning), only the number of affected items (0).
Even if you never click Start validation Google can detect fixed instances of an issue. If Google detects that all instances of an issue have been fixed during its regular crawl, it will change the issue count to 0 on the report.
⚠️ Wait for a validation cycle to complete before requesting another cycle, even if you have fixed some issues during the current cycle.
To restart a failed validation:
- Navigate into the validation log for the failed validation: Open to the issue details page of the issue that failed validation and click See details.
- Click Start new validation.
- Validation will restart for all URLs marked Pending or Failed, plus any new instances of this issue discovered through normal crawling since the last validation attempt. URLs marked Passed or Other are not rechecked.
- Validation typically takes up to about two weeks, but in some cases can take much longer, so please be patient.
See validation progress
To see the progress of a current validation request, or the history of the last request if a validation is not in progress:
- Open the issue details page for the issue. Click the issue row in the main report page to open the issue details page.
- The validation request status is shown both in the issue details page and also in the Validation row of the Details table.
- Click See details to open the validation details page for that request.
- The instance status for each URL included in the request is shown in the table.
- The instance status applies to the specific issue that you are examining. You can have one issue labeled Passed on a page, but other issues labeled Failed, Pending, or Other on the same page.
- In the AMP report and Page Indexing report, entries in the validation history page are grouped by URL.
- In the Rich Result reports, items are grouped by the combination of URL + structured data item (as determined by the item's Name value).
The following validation states apply to validation for a given issue:
- Not started: One or more instances of this issue have never been in a validation request for this issue.
Next steps:- Click into the issue to learn the details of the error. Inspect the individual pages to see examples of the error on the live page.
- Click Learn more on the details page to see the details of the problem.
- Click an example URL row in the table to get details on that specific error.
- Fix your pages and then click Validate fix to start validation. Validation typically takes up to about two weeks, but in some cases can take much longer, so please be patient.
- Started: You have begun a validation attempt and no remaining instances of the issue have been found yet.
Next step: Google will send notifications as validation proceeds, telling you what to do, if necessary. - Looking good: You started a validation attempt, and all issue instances that have been checked so far have been fixed.
Next step: Nothing to do, but Google will send notifications as validation proceeds, telling you what to do. - Passed: All known instances of the issue are gone (or the affected URL is no longer available). You must have clicked Validate fix to get to this state (if instances disappeared without you requesting validation, state would change to N/A).
Next step: Nothing more to do. - N/A: Google found that the issue was fixed on all URLs, even though you never started a validation attempt.
Next step: Nothing more to do. - Failed: A certain threshold of pages still contain this issue, after you clicked Validate.
Next steps: Fix the issue and restart validation.
After validation has been requested, every instance of the issue is assigned one of the following validation states:
- Pending: Queued for validation. The last time Google looked, this issue instance existed.
- Passed: [Not available in all reports] Google checked for the issue instance and it no longer exists. Can reach this state only if you explicitly clicked Validate for this issue instance.
- Failed: Google checked for the issue instance and it's still there. Can reach this state only if you explicitly clicked Validate for this issue instance.
- Other: [Not available in all reports] Google couldn't reach the URL hosting the instance, or (for structured data) couldn't find the item on the page any more. Considered equivalent to Passed.
Note that the same URL can have different states for different issues; For example, if a single page has both issue X and issue Y, issue X can be in validation state Passed and issue Y on the same page can be in validation state Pending.
Known issues
The following are known issues in Search Console. No need to report them to us, but we'd love your feedback on any other features or issues you spot. Use the Feedback mechanism built into the navigation bar.
- Some issues have long names that are not easy to understand.
- If your site has a very large number of issues (whether or not there are active instances), the report will show only the first 200 issues, sorted by importance.
