URL Inspection live render vs. Rich Results Test

URL Inspection live render vs. Rich Results Test

Both show "Googlebot's rendered HTML," but they're not interchangeable. Compared output on 64 JS pages.

— Both use evergreen Chromium render ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
— Rich Results Test: no auth, public URLs only ▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░
— URL Inspection live: respects your property, shows resource-load failures, 6.4% caught blocked JS the RRT missed ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░

So what: Rich Results Test is the fast, shareable check for schema and basic render on public pages. URL Inspection's live test is the diagnostic one — it surfaces which specific resources Googlebot failed to fetch (the real cause of empty renders). Use RRT to confirm structured data; use Inspection to debug why a render came back blank. Different jobs, same engine.