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Olivia Waite

oliviawaite.com · a site they built themselves

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

Olivia Waite publishes essays, poems and short stories about books & reading, fantasy & SF and mystery & crime at oliviawaite.com, a site they built themselves. Last published February 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 1 other writer in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

50 dated posts since 20111 writer vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksSeptember 2012 to November 2024

JFMAMJJASOND20122012-11: 120132013-01: 12013-09: 120142014-04: 192014-07: 32014-08: 12014-10: 120152015-01: 32015-02: 12015-03: 12015-07: 12015-09: 12015-11: 120162016-03: 12016-04: 12016-05: 12016-06: 12016-07: 12016-09: 220172017-01: 12017-03: 12017-05: 12017-08: 120182018-03: 12018-06: 120242024-11: 1
fewermorepeak: 19 in April 2014

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

12012220132420148201572016420172201812024

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 14

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 14, 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
13 captured
Front page
327 KB, 32 scripts, 30 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
3 other writers in the index, 81 other sites, 3 platforms
Found
2026-09-07, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

romance497cover771kinsale2historical468heroine92backlist22haphazard6heartist1heist32maddy10critique138adventure672dorothy62woodcut7

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.

Their neighbourhood

Close Reading RomaThe ToastStephanie Burgis84 sites outside the indexOlivia Waite
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Close Reading Romance, The Toast, Stephanie Burgis.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by one other writer

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.
  • No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
  • The navigation carries a commercial page or two.
  • Carries a full set of search-engine tags. This site is trying to be found, and the almanac scores that against it.

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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