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Progressive Ruin

www.progressiveruin.com · a site they built themselves

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

Progressive Ruin publishes comics at www.progressiveruin.com, a site they built themselves. Last published September 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 2 other writers in the index. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

22 dated posts since 20112 writers vouchunfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksSeptember 2011 to September 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20112011-09: 120122012-10: 120212021-06: 12021-10: 220232023-07: 120262026-05: 22026-06: 12026-07: 12026-08: 72026-09: 5
fewermorepeak: 7 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

12011120123202112023162026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 23

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 23, 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
1 captured
Front page
151 KB, 17 scripts, 41 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
1 other writer in the index, 23 other sites, 0 platforms
Found
2026-09-12, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

comic546marvel155xmen38byrne28retailing1absolute144sterling29fantastic230universe433batman60fred64heinlein19mike154plugging6

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 vouches2 writers in the index

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

Their neighbourhood

Existential EnnuiEvery Day Is Like Thunderbolts and W23 sites outside the indexProgressive Ruin
in the indexoutside itthis writer

They link to Thunderbolts and Writing.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · 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.
  • The copyright line names a person, not a company.
  • 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.
  • 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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