YouTube
Does your site carry your videos?
In one sentence
The video site check reads a site's homepage and sitemap pages and reports which pages carry a YouTube video (iframe, click-to-play facade or page-builder widget), whether each shown video is described by a VideoObject node with the four required properties, whether any VideoObject claims a video the page does not show, how many videos appear on more than one page, and, given a channel handle, how many of the channel's videos the site carries.
The site half of the video anchor model: which pages embed YouTube, whether each embed is described by VideoObject schema, how each video is spread across your own pages, and whether the channel’s videos appear on the site at all.
Questions about this page
QWhy does VideoObject matter?
An embed without VideoObject is a player Google cannot describe. With name, description, thumbnailUrl and uploadDate present the page is eligible for a video result; missing uploadDate alone makes it ineligible.
QWhat counts as a video on the page?
An iframe embed, a click-to-play facade with the video's watch link or poster, or a page-builder widget such as Elementor's video element. Schema alone, with no video shown, is reported as a defect rather than a video.
QWhich pages are read?
The homepage plus up to 60 pages from the site's sitemap, walking one level into a sitemap index. Taxonomy sitemaps are skipped.