Nothing here announces anything. It records the days on which this site went back and checked something, so you can tell how old each claim on it is.
What this log is for
Every factual claim on this site has an age, and this page is where you find it. If a quotation here no longer matches the page it came from, the date below tells you how far apart the two readings are.
It is not a news feed. Nothing is posted here to look active, and there is no schedule of announcements. A site that quotes other companies has exactly one ongoing obligation, which is to say when it last looked, and this is the page that discharges it.
You will notice that four of the five entries share a date. That is not a batch of posts backdated to look busy. Twelve homepages were genuinely read in one sitting, and the scan and the link tests were run against that same capture on the same day, because running them later would have meant testing a different version of the web than the one this site quotes. Spreading those dates out to look more natural would have been the dishonest option.
The log
Newest first. Each entry says what was done and what it changed on the site.
Twelve agent homepages read and captured
All twelve were opened in a single sitting and screenshotted at native size. Reading them on one day is the whole methodological point: a comparison assembled over three weeks would be comparing a September page against an August one and calling the difference a finding.
Every quotation on this site carries that date for this reason. One of the captures happens to include a running clock, which is reproduced on the method page as the timestamp for the whole set.
Two things were deliberately left out. One company floating video player covered the part of its own homepage we would otherwise have shown, so it is quoted from page text only. Another homepage carried a dated promotional offer directly above its header, and that band was excluded from the crop rather than published, because a dated offer goes stale here in a way the rest of the page does not.
Repeated wording scanned across all twelve
The text of the twelve homepages was compared against itself and every string occurring on two or more sites was kept. The result was ten groups of shared wording, one of which is a complete sentence appearing word for word on four separate homepages.
This number was measured, not estimated, and it was measured twice. An earlier working note put it at seven sentences, which was somebody remembering rather than counting, and it was wrong in both directions. The table on the shared wording page shows what the scan actually returned.
Every agent link on this site tested
All twelve citation addresses were requested before any of them was written into a page. Eleven answered directly. One answered with a permanent redirect to a shorter form of its own address, so the shorter form is what this site links to, and the discrepancy is recorded in the source rather than quietly followed.
Testing links before writing them, instead of writing them and testing afterwards, is the only order in which a broken one cannot briefly ship.
All twenty-eight outbound links retested in one pass
Before this site went out, every address it links to was requested again in a single run: the sixteen catalogue destinations behind the category cards and the twelve agent citations. All twenty-eight answered on the first request, and none of them redirected on the way.
The sixteen had already been tested nine days earlier, and that earlier test is still logged below rather than overwritten. Re-running them was not a formality. A catalogue reorganises its own categories from time to time, and the failure that matters is not a dead link but a live one that has quietly started pointing somewhere else.
Sixteen category destinations tested
Every category on this site points at a catalogue page, and all sixteen destinations were requested and confirmed to answer directly, with none of them bouncing through a redirect. That test predates the homepage reading because the category wall was built first.
Category links are the most load-bearing thing here. A dead one wastes a click and quietly teaches a reader that the rest of the site is not maintained either.
What happens when something here goes stale
It will. Companies rewrite their homepages, badges change wording, storage periods move, and a link that answered in September can stop answering in March. A dated record does not prevent any of that. It only makes the staleness visible instead of invisible, which is the most an independent site can honestly offer.
Two things will trigger a re-read here. The first is a report. If you find a quotation on this site that no longer matches the page it names, or a category link that has stopped working, write to [email protected] and it gets checked. A correction is published with its own date in this log, and the old wording is described rather than silently replaced, so the record stays readable.
The second is a full pass. The intention is to re-read all twelve homepages together, in one sitting, the same way they were read the first time, and to log the date it happened. Adding one freshly read company to eleven stale captures would quietly destroy the only thing that makes the comparison worth anything, so a partial refresh is not something this site will do.
If a claim on this site matters to a decision you are about to make, do not take it on the date alone. The four-step method is written so that you can confirm it yourself in about ten minutes, on any company, including ones this site has never mentioned.