Release Notes - May 2026

May brought a wave of improvements across the Schema App platform, with a strong focus on usability — from smarter workflows in the Highlighter Extension to customizable branding in the Knowledge Assistant, alongside significant work to make Coverage analytics more accurate and trustworthy.

Smarter Template Loading in the Highlighter Extension

The Highlighter Extension now intelligently determines how to load templates based on the current page's URL. When exactly one template matches, it loads automatically — skipping the template creation screen entirely for a faster, smoother workflow. When zero or multiple templates match, the system defaults to the creation screen while automatically pre-selecting the most relevant template. This makes the day-to-day highlighting experience noticeably more efficient.

More Accurate Coverage Analytics

Coverage reporting received a series of foundational improvements this month that make denominator counts more accurate and explainable. Non-HTML resources such as PDFs, images, and feeds are now excluded from Coverage denominators. URL normalization strips common tracking parameters and resolves variants of the same logical page. Canonical URL resolution further reduces duplicate counting. And a deployment scope filter ensures that only URLs within a client's Google Search Console property are included — excluding staging paths, internal search results, and out-of-scope domains. Together, these changes provide Coverage metrics that better reflect how customers think about their site.

Other Improvements at Schema App

• Mismatched Project Notifications in Highlighter — The Highlighter Extension now detects when the current page's domain doesn't match the active project's base URL, and prompts users to create a new project or switch to a compatible one. This reduces confusion when working across multiple sites.
• Google Product Certification Support — SHACL rules for Product structured data have been updated to support Google's hasCertification property for Merchant Listings, preparing customers for Google's updated product requirements.
• Faster Coverage Report Loading — The Analyzer v2 Coverage tab query has been rewritten, reducing typical load times from approximately 28 seconds to around 5 seconds.
• Unified Entity Tag UI in Highlighter — The Highlighter Extension's entity tag interface has been streamlined, consolidating internal and external entity options into a unified view for simpler tag selection and a cleaner user experience.
• Enhanced Security — Multiple security enhancements were shipped across the platform this month, addressing vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies and improving how sensitive data is handled in API responses.
• Improved Deployment Monitoring Reliability — Fixed an issue where intermittent internal errors were being incorrectly counted as deployment failures, causing misleading failure rates for some clients.

In Brief

May 2026 focused on usability and data integrity. The Knowledge Assistant gained branding customization options for administrators, and the Highlighter Extension received smart template auto-loading and project mismatch warnings. Coverage analytics saw its most significant accuracy improvements to date, with better URL normalization, canonical deduplication, HTML-only filtering, and scope-aware denominators. The month also delivered faster Coverage report loading, a unified entity tag UI, security hardening, and more reliable deployment monitoring.

As always, we're continuing to build on these improvements — reach out to your Customer Success Manager if you have any questions about this month's updates.