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Trotting Krips

trottingkrips.caltrops.com · a site they built themselves · publishing since 2019

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

Trotting Krips publishes essays at trottingkrips.caltrops.com, a site they built themselves. Last published March 2024. Publishing since 2019, by their own archive. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

242 pages in their archive7 years at it12 dated posts since 20192 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksNovember 2019 to March 2024

JFMAMJJASOND20192019-11: 120212021-07: 12021-09: 22021-10: 12021-11: 12021-12: 120222022-01: 12022-03: 120242024-02: 22024-03: 1
fewermorepeak: 2 in February 2024

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

12019620212202232024

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 7

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 7, 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 242 the sitemap lists
Front page
137 KB, 12 scripts, 6 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Feed
yes, 10 entries, the recent end only
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
none
Links out
6 other writers in the index, 28 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-24, by following another writer's link

The lag

2019writing since2026the almanac

Writing since 2019. The Internet Archive first captured the site in 2019. 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

game964handic1mutant40spider125race227schmidt16krip2cooke22adventuron1mountain334parser12susan187plane105player212

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

Renga in BlueE BLONGEmily Short's InteWelcome to Wurb30 sites outside the indexTrotting Krips
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Renga in Blue, E BLONG, Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling, Welcome to Wurb, CALTROPS, The Digital Antiquarian.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · essays, stories, or poems · publishing since 2019 · no optimization at all · vouched by 2 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.
  • 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.

Every figure on this page was measured from the site itself and says where it came from. Nothing is quoted from the writing and nothing is written by a model. Something wrong? One email corrects it: hello@longhandalmanac.com. Want out of the index? Same address, or two lines in your robots.txt (how), and this page is gone the next morning.