Re: Permit external JSON-LD files?

Currently Google expects structured data (all formats - microdata, rdfa
too...) to be inline, or injected inline by Javascript.

There may be a case for externalising per-page data into distinct files,
but there are some subtleties - e.g. why not just have one big JSON-LD file
for the site, or chunks of it (see rough draft at
https://schema.org/docs/feeds.html).



On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 13:13, Gregory Saumier-Finch <
gregory@culturecreates.com> wrote:

> Hello group,
>
> I am very curious to know if Google Bot processes the remote document.
> Can anyone report back on the behaviour of Google Bots regarding the
> retrieval of JSON-LD alternate links in HTML page headers?
>
> I am willing to do some tests and report back if others are interested in
> this question as well.
>
> regards,
> Gregory
>
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> On Aug 29, 2022, at 12:41 PM, Dave Vieglais <dave.vieglais@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I believe another approach is to use a link header in the HTTP response of
> the requested resource. This is laid out in the current JSON-LD spec §
> 9.4 Remote Document and Context Retrieval
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11-api/#remote-document-and-context-retrieval>.
> Basically if the response to a request https://example.org/foo.html
> includes a Link header such as:
>
> Link: <https://example.org/meta/foo.jsonld> ;rel=“alternate”;type=“application/ld+json”
>
> then the JSON-LD processor should recognize the alternate location for the
> requested document type and retrieve the JSON-LD document from
> https://example.org/meta/foo.jsonld.
>
> One benefit of such an approach is that a client interested in JSON-LD can
> issue a HEAD request to determine the location of the JSON-LD before
> retrieving the resource, saving a bit of traffic.
>
> I can’t speak for how broadly this approach is supported however.
>
> regards,
> Dave Vieglais
>
> On 29 Aug 2022, at 11:29, Hans Polak wrote:
>
> Good afternoon,
>
> This is from StackOverflow.
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30864619/does-json-ld-have-to-be-embedded
>
> <link href="/myid123/jsonld.js" rel="alternate" type="application/ld+json"
> />
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Hans Polak
>
> On 27/8/22 19:17, Roger Rogerson wrote:
>
> I appreciate that things like MicroData are inlined,
> and utilise the HTML Markup to associate data with content.
>
> But JSON-LD Schema is embedded.
> In many cases, this additional code serves no "human" purpose,
> and is provided for "machines" (typically Google).
>
> A shining example is the following web page (remove spaces after periods):
> https://www. delish. com/cooking/g1956/best-cookies/
>
> That page has approximately 35Kb of Schema.
> That is loaded for every single human visitor.
>
> In the case of popular pages - this means a large amount of unnecessary
> code is transferred (Gigabytes or higher per year).
>
> If the JSON-LD could be externalised into a referred to file,
> then this could reduce bandwidth consumption for users,
> help speed up some page load times/improve performance
> and help towards "going green".
>
>
> I appreciate that technically,
> this isn't about "Schema" directly,
> but about how Browsers and Parsers can recognise and handle
> and externalised version - but I'm hoping this is the right place
> to get it considered and the right people to see it/push it to browser
> vendors.
>
>
> Thank you.
> Autocrat.
>
>
>