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Skeptic's Kaddish

skepticskaddish.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2009

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

Skeptic's Kaddish publishes poems about grief & illness at skepticskaddish.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Publishing since 2009, by their own archive. Vouched for by 10 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

2,003 pages in their archive17 years at it3,490 dated posts since 202010 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJune 2020 to August 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20202020-06: 142020-07: 202020-08: 172020-09: 122020-10: 152020-11: 132020-12: 2820212021-01: 322021-02: 322021-03: 492021-04: 572021-05: 672021-06: 672021-07: 902021-08: 1192021-09: 982021-10: 772021-11: 732021-12: 6520222022-01: 672022-02: 622022-03: 602022-04: 572022-05: 502022-06: 392022-07: 542022-08: 692022-09: 602022-10: 632022-11: 572022-12: 5120232023-01: 622023-02: 502023-03: 502023-04: 462023-05: 512023-06: 502023-07: 562023-08: 552023-09: 522023-10: 562023-11: 442023-12: 3720242024-01: 422024-02: 412024-03: 422024-04: 492024-05: 462024-06: 372024-07: 432024-08: 452024-09: 422024-10: 422024-11: 392024-12: 4120252025-01: 382025-02: 312025-03: 282025-04: 262025-05: 282025-06: 282025-07: 292025-08: 392025-09: 612025-10: 562025-11: 462025-12: 4120262026-01: 382026-02: 362026-03: 412026-04: 412026-05: 342026-06: 372026-07: 332026-08: 27
fewermorepeak: 119 in August 2021

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

1192020826202168920226092023509202445120252872026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 17

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 17, from their own archive. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
12 captured, of 2,003 the sitemap lists1 section found
Front page
102 KB, 21 scripts, 13 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 8 entries, the whole archive
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
2 other writers in the index, 8 other sites, 10 platforms
Found
2026-08-23, by following another writer's link

The lag

2009writing since2020archived2026the almanac

Writing since 2009. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2020. 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

alexander117weave111bogomolny1weekly389prompt466jerusalem24reblog41papa15david531written1135israel75parde2kessler7arsenal7

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 vouches9 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

Stine WritingTea & PaperKeep it aliveRANDOM THOUGHTS byHearing The MermaiA Cornered GurlThe Elephant's Truwriting in north nK.Poesy PerspectivesLesleyScoble.com18 sites outside the indexSkeptic's Kaddish
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Poesy Perspectives, LesleyScoble.com. Kept on the same blogrolls: I Write Her (4 of the same writers link to both), Creative Experiments and More (4 of the same writers link to both), My Mind Mappings (3 of the same writers link to both), Keep it alive (3 of the same writers link to both).

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 2009 · vouched by the literary end

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.

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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