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Cat Sparks

catsparks.net · a site they built themselves

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Cat Sparks publishes art and short stories about fantasy & SF and place & nature at catsparks.net, a site they built themselves. Last published December 2025, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 5 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

9 dated posts since 20115 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksMay 2011 to December 2025

JFMAMJJASOND20112011-05: 320242024-02: 12024-04: 12024-05: 12024-08: 12024-11: 120252025-12: 1
fewermorepeak: 3 in May 2011

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

320115202412025

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 10

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 10, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
14 captured
Front page
47 KB, 12 scripts, 16 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
5 other writers in the index, 64 other sites, 9 platforms
Found
2026-08-27, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

spark173lydd1calvaria1appearance265roadkill10keep1151spain112bride71hollywood87bibliography127fell237lotus27ceasefire5google296

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Who vouches3 writers in the index

3 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.

Their neighbourhood

Clare RhodenJason NahrungJane RoutleyAmanda BridgemanNobody is lookingPodCastleredheadedfemme73 sites outside the indexCat Sparks
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Amanda Bridgeman, Nobody is looking, PodCastle, redheadedfemme, Angela Slatter.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · no optimization at all · vouched by 5 other writers

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • No description written for search engines and no schema. Nothing on the page was built to be found.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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