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hogglestock

hogglestock.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2006

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

hogglestock publishes writing about books & reading and music at hogglestock.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2006, by their own archive. Vouched for by 5 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

1,001 pages in their archive20 years at it57 dated posts since 20135 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJune 2013 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20132013-06: 120222022-11: 120242024-10: 1120252025-01: 62025-02: 22025-05: 62025-12: 1620262026-01: 22026-03: 92026-08: 3
fewermorepeak: 16 in December 2025

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

1201312022112024302025142026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 20

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 20, 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 1,001 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
235 KB, 26 scripts, 48 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 5 other sites, 3 platforms
Found
2026-08-23, by following another writer's link

The lag

2006writing since2015archived2026the almanac

Writing since 2006. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2015. The big engines have never ranked it. The almanac found it in August 2026, by following another writer's link.

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

orchestra37concert117whither4classical85composer63music1107thoma278takeaway25symphony32unchristian1spco1uncategorized356cleveland24louisville9

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 vouches5 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

bibliolathasbibliolathasStuck in a BookAnnaBookBelThe Captive Reader8 sites outside the indexhogglestock
in the indexoutside itthis writer

Kept on the same blogrolls: Reading Matters (4 of the same writers link to both), Stuck in a Book (4 of the same writers link to both), A Life in Books (3 of the same writers link to both), Kate Macdonald (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · publishing since 2006 · 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.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.

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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