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Balladeer's Blog

glitternight.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2010

Read them at glitternight.com → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

Balladeer's Blog publishes writing about books & reading at glitternight.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2010, by their own archive. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

1,005 pages in their archive16 years at it23 dated posts since 2019unfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksAugust 2019 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20192019-08: 120202020-02: 120212021-06: 120232023-01: 120242024-09: 120262026-06: 12026-07: 42026-08: 13
fewermorepeak: 13 in August 2026

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

1201912020120211202312024182026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 16

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 16, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured, of 1,005 the sitemap lists
Front page
192 KB, 34 scripts, 27 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 10 other sites, 3 platforms
Found
2026-08-22, from ooh-arts

The lag

2010writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2010. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2010. The big engines have never ranked it. The almanac found it in August 2026.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

ozidi1shang7shangchi2democrat20lecoq2manchu2antidonald1myth209detective208dardo1trump108hysteria12court168filed49

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.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · publishing since 2010

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.
  • Some tracking is present.

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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