Open Yale Courses
(https://oyc.yale.edu) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 25, 2026Inspect 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.
The authority of the named experts (e.g., Shelly Kagan, Tamar Gendler) is global and verifiable, yet the site suffers from significant technical authority gaps. There is no JSON-LD schema to provide machine-readable identity for the Organization or the Person entities, and the technical advice recommending ‘Internet Explorer 8.0’ and ‘QuickTime’ is dangerously archaic for a 2026 analysis date.
There is no disconnect because the site makes zero performance claims regarding student outcomes, salary increases, or career success. It limits its claims to the availability of media files and the ‘distinguished’ nature of its faculty, which is substantiated by the detailed ‘Courses’ directory and the professors’ specific departmental affiliations.
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
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
| Page | Reviews | Proof links |
|---|---|---|
| / (home) | 0 | 1 |
| /help/ | 2 | 1 |
| /courses/ | 0 | 1 |
| /about/ | 0 | 1 |
This page presents a snapshot of public data from Open Yale Courses, captured on May 25, 2026, to show how machine logic reads Identity & Authority signals into an AI reputation evaluation.
Purpose: This data is presented under “Fair Use” for the purpose of independent signal analysis, allowing readers to see the raw signals behind the reputation score.
Notice to Open Yale Courses: This analysis is part of a non-adversarial audit conducted by 1 Euro SEO. The results are intended as professional feedback to help improve any website’s machine-readability and authority signals. The evaluation is free, and any company can request a fresh audit at any time.
Any company can use the insights for free and improve its voice. When a company has updated its content, it can always submit a new audit request, which will be reflected in a new current score.
To all users: You are encouraged to visit the live site at https://oyc.yale.edu to view the most current version of its content and see directly what this company is about and what it offers.