The feature died,
the markup lives.
Schema Watch tracks what the web actually deploys, not what the docs say should matter.
Find the structured data worth keeping, cutting, or re-aiming, before you spend another sprint maintaining markup for rich results that no longer exist.
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SearchAction10M+ -
BreadcrumbList10M+ -
FAQPage1M - 10M -
WPHeader1M - 10M -
HowTo100K - 1M
Solid bars still do a job. Hollow bars don't, yet the web deploys them just as widely.
What to keep, what to cut
The skill isn't deleting whatever lost its rich result. It's telling apart the term whose value moved from the one that simply died.
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FAQPageKeep, re-aimRich result removed May 2026, but Google still parses FAQ data to understand pages. The value moved to comprehension and AI retrieval, keep the markup, drop the SERP expectation.
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SearchActionCutPlumbing for the sitelinks searchbox Google retired in November 2024. Still in the top deployment band, doing nothing.
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HowToCutRich result removed in 2023 with no residual use evidenced. The clean delete, distinct from FAQPage, which kept a job.
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WPHeaderLeave itNever drove a rich result, a CMS theme default, not a decision to audit. Don't moralize about it.
Useful today, compounding monthly
None of the calls above need history; they hold at the first dataset. The archive is the bonus on top. May 2026 evidenced 5,545 distinct terms, and only 12 types reach the 10M+ band. Schema Watch keeps every month and rebuilds itself when a new one lands, so the month-over-month movement a late starter can't backfill accrues on its own. See movers for how that activates, and method for how it's computed.