Has JSON-LD Hospital

Has JSON-LD Hospital reports whether the raw HTML of a page contains a JSON-LD @type of Hospital, returning 1 when that string is present and 0 when it is not. It is a text pattern match on source, not a validation of the structured-data graph, so a match can appear even outside valid JSON-LD.

Factor IDRG-SCJ-107
FamilyStructured Data – JSON-LD
MeasurementBinary presence (0 / 1)
Measured zoneRaw rendered HTML

What it measures

This factor reports whether RankGear finds an @type value of Hospital in the raw source of the page. It is a binary observation of a single structured-data type declaration: the value is 1 when the pattern is found anywhere in the rendered HTML, and 0 when it is absent. It says nothing about whether the surrounding JSON-LD is well formed or complete.

How RankGear measures it

RankGear searches the raw HTML for the string "@type": "Hospital", allowing flexible whitespace around the colon and optionally permitting a schema: prefix on the type value. Matching is case-insensitive, so capitalization differences do not affect the result. Because the match runs against source text rather than a parsed graph, the same string appearing outside valid JSON-LD still returns 1.

What RankGear looks for

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Hospital",
  "name": "Riverside General Hospital",
  "department": ["Emergency", "Cardiology"]
}
</script>
ValueMeaning
1A Hospital @type string (optionally schema:Hospital) was found in the raw HTML, in any letter case.
0No such string was found in the source.

How to optimize it

Use the Hospital type only for a page that genuinely represents a hospital, and describe it accurately: real departments, services, location, contact details, and emergency information, with every property matching the content a visitor can see. Treat this factor as an observation that the declaration is present, not a target to chase – declaring the type without truthful, matching data adds no real structured-data value and risks a mismatch between markup and page.

Important considerations

  • The detector pattern-matches source text instead of validating a JSON-LD graph.
  • A matching string that sits outside valid JSON-LD can still produce a value of 1.
  • Capitalization differences do not affect detection.
  • Validate the complete structured data independently rather than relying on this presence check.
  • Presence of this type correlates with, and does not cause, position within a measured result set; it is a prioritization signal, not a guarantee of ranking.

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