diff --git a/src/main/resources/schema/ans/0.10.9/utils/variant.json b/src/main/resources/schema/ans/0.10.9/utils/variant.json
index 6c4d19a1..95eb8b8d 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/schema/ans/0.10.9/utils/variant.json
+++ b/src/main/resources/schema/ans/0.10.9/utils/variant.json
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
     "websites": {
       "description": "websites assigned to this variant; individual values must be mutually exclusive with other variants",
       "items": {
-        "maxItems": 50,
         "type": "string"
       },
+      "maxItems": 50,
       "type": "array"
     }
   },