Identity & Authority: Made – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Made

(https://made.com) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 31, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
4 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
27% Reputation

There is a massive technical and authority gap evidenced by 403 errors on the lighting and garden pages, which prevents the user from verifying any expertise. Furthermore, the mismatch where the site claims to be ‘MADE’ but metadata references ‘next.co.uk’ creates an authority vacuum. No individual designers or experts are named or linked via Person schema.

The site claims to offer a ‘fantastic range’ and ‘unique homeware’ in the meta data, but the crawled evidence shows broken category links and empty sub-pages. There is zero substance to support the ‘unique’ claim beyond a 10% discount offer for account registration. The marketing tone promises a design-led experience that the technical infrastructure fails to deliver.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
{
    "@context": "http://schema.org",
    "@type": "Organization",
    "name": "Made",
    "url": "https://www.made.com",
    "sameAs": [
        "https://www.facebook.com/Madedotcom",
        "https://twitter.com/madedotcom",
        "https://www.instagram.com/madedotcom",
        "https://www.pinterest.co.uk/madedotcom",
        "https://www.youtube.com/user/made"
    ]
}
/shop/lighting/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/secure/accounts/transfer/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
/shop/garden-and-outdoors/ — no schema detected (entity gap)
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
39Review mentions (all pages)
0External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 37 0
/shop/lighting/ 0 0
/secure/accounts/transfer/ 2 0
/shop/garden-and-outdoors/ 0 0