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Ratings not exposed to machines

Reviews rendered only as pixels cannot be read by an agent ranking options on quality.

How to fix it
  1. Check whether your review app emits aggregateRating on the product page, and enable it if it is optional.
  2. Do not hand-write ratings that are not backed by real reviews. This is both a policy violation and easy to detect.

Why an agent cares

Most review apps inject star ratings into the page visually, and many also emit aggregateRating in structured data. Some do not, or do it only on themes they support.

When an agent is asked for the best option rather than the cheapest, rating is the field it reaches for. If yours is not machine-readable, you are compared on price alone.

Check your own store

This check runs as part of a full audit, alongside 18 others. Nothing to install.

Store
Any Shopify store. No install, no login, nothing to connect.