Canonical Signal Audit: When Six Pages Pointed to the Homepage
A measured baseline showing how a site-wide canonical default obscured the identity of otherwise distinct pages.
Inspect the evidenceRESEARCH
Legacy guides remain available by direct URL while they are reworked, but they are no longer promoted or submitted for indexing. The reports below include raw data, methods, limitations, and release records.
A measured baseline showing how a site-wide canonical default obscured the identity of otherwise distinct pages.
Inspect the evidenceA reproducible one-request baseline for response time and HTML transfer size across the site's main templates.
Inspect the evidenceAn observed comparison of cache signals on HTML, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and ads.txt before remediation.
Inspect the evidenceA transparent header inventory that separates observed omissions from claims about exploitability.
Inspect the evidenceObserved word and heading counts used to decide which templates should remain indexable during editorial recovery.
Inspect the evidenceA server-rendered link inventory used to rebuild navigation around evidence rather than content volume.
Inspect the evidenceA direct response check of the site's machine-readable discovery and advertising declarations.
Inspect the evidenceA two-entry host normalization check that records redirects and DNS failure without guessing at crawler behavior.
Inspect the evidenceA bounded privacy baseline of script origins and server-rendered forms before any advertising code is enabled.
Inspect the evidenceWhy zero missing alt attributes was not a success metric when the sampled publication also contained zero images.
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