How Awesome Websites is built
Measured numbers
Counted by the collection, not written by hand. A figure we cannot support is left out rather than shown as zero.
- Pages
- 458
- 5th of 8 measured in Lifestyle, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- 332 → 458 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Deploys
- 12 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 25 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 36.1 KB · llms-full.txt 2.6 MB
- Feed
- Published
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 24 Oct 2026
- As reported by the site itself
Tech and AI search
Read from the live site on 2026-10-23: its homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt. A line we could not read is left out.
- Built with
- Next.js
- Read from the homepage markup
- Structured data
- FAQPage, Organization, WebSite
- schema.org types on the homepage
- AI crawler access
- Allows all 11 major AI crawlers
- From the site’s robots.txt
- llms.txt link depth
- 145 page links
- Markdown links in the site’s llms.txt
- Search
- Search box on the homepage
How it is built, by role
The same roles apply across the whole collection. Nothing in this block is specific to this site; what the site says about itself is quoted word for word below it.
- 1
Edge network
Visitors reach a site through an edge layer: a content delivery network with a web application firewall in front of it.
- 2
Application host
The edge talks to an application host that serves the site and renders its pages.
- 3
Data
What the pages show comes from a relational database or, for a site pre-rendered at build time, from data files built into its release.
- 4
Scheduled measurement
The collection measures its sites on a schedule: content dates and site health nightly, page counts read from each site’s sitemap weekly. Every reading is kept with its date. A site too large to re-walk is not re-measured, and shows no trend.
- 5
Public status feed
A monitoring panel sends a signed report on uptime, deploys and backups once a day, and the Operations page publishes it. A figure on this page that comes from that report says so.
In the site's own words
Each passage is copied unaltered from a page the site publishes, with the address it was taken from and the date we took it. We add nothing between them.
“Awesome Websites (awesomewebsites.org) is a multi-author publication where writers share in-depth articles across a wide range of subjects.”
“It is a publication of articles, not a ranking or list of the best websites.”
“The topic areas are Combat Sports, Law & Justice, Health & Longevity, AI & Technology, Crypto & Finance, Asia & Travel, News & Investigations, Lifestyle & Culture and Reference & Guides.”
“We bring together in-depth, practical writing across a wide range of subjects — from combat sports and health to law, technology, travel, and culture.”
“Awesome Websites (a multi-author publication) publishes editor-reviewed articles organised into channels, one channel per subject. Outside writers can submit drafts, which are moderated before publication. New articles are published on a daily schedule.”
“Original writing with a genuine point of view — never spun or auto-generated filler.”
“Factual claims should be supported, and sources linked where it matters.”
“Submissions are checked against the content policy before publication; trusted authors may have their articles approved automatically on submission.”
Screenshots
Timeline
332 → 458 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 332 |
| 2026-09-30 | 332 |
| 2026-10-10 | 394 |
| 2026-10-18 | 437 |
| 2026-10-25 | 458 |
- 30 Sep 2026332 pages
- 30 Sep 2026332 pages
- 10 Oct 2026394 pages
- 18 Oct 2026437 pages
- 25 Oct 2026458 pages