Has JSON-LD Game

Abstract illustration of a game controller inside JSON-LD braces marking a detected Game schema type, in RankGear indigo and coral.

Has JSON-LD Game reports whether RankGear finds a JSON-LD @type of Game in a page’s raw source. It returns 1 when the pattern is present and 0 when it is not — but it text-matches the source string rather than validating a JSON-LD graph, so a 1 is not proof of correct structured data.

Factor IDRG-SCJ-092
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 Game in the raw source of the page. It is a simple presence signal: either the Game type is declared in the markup or it is not. It describes what the page announces about itself, not whether that declaration is valid or accurate.

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How RankGear measures it

RankGear searches the raw HTML for the "@type": "Game" declaration, allowing flexible whitespace around the colon and optionally accepting a schema: prefix. Matching is case-insensitive, so capitalization differences do not affect the result. Because it works against source text rather than a parsed graph, a matching string that sits outside valid JSON-LD can still return 1.

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What RankGear looks for

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Game",
  "name": "...",
  "author": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "..." }
}
</script>
ValueMeaning
1The Game @type string is present in the raw source (whitespace-flexible, optional schema: prefix, case-insensitive).
0No matching Game @type string was found in the raw source.
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How to optimize it

Use the Game type only for a page about a genuine game, with an accurate name, creator, platform, genre, and access or offer information, and only where those properties match the content a visitor actually sees. Treat this factor as an observation about your markup rather than a target to force: adding the string to satisfy the detector without a real game behind it does not represent your page honestly. Presence relates to how well-marked-up game pages tend to look; it does not by itself move a page’s position.

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Important considerations

  • The detector pattern-matches source text instead of validating a JSON-LD graph.
  • A matching string that appears outside valid JSON-LD can still produce a 1.
  • Capitalization differences do not affect detection.
  • Validate the complete structured data independently, with a schema validator, rather than relying on this presence check.
  • Correlation is not causation: this factor tracks whether the markup is present within a measured result set and is a prioritization signal, not a guarantee that declaring Game will change a page’s ranking.
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Related factors

Part of the Factors reference · how RankGear measures · glossary.

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