How Federal & State Law 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
- 5,302
- 12th of 24 measured in Legal/Civic, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- 5,298 → 5,302 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Uptime
- 100.00% over 30 days
- From the public status feed
- Deploys
- 15 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 24 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 3.5 KB · llms-full.txt 8.7 KB
- Feed
- Published
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 25 Jun 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
- Dataset, LegalService, 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
- 25 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.
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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.
“Federal & State Law is an independent online legal-information publisher.”
“All 50 states + DC + 5 territories + tribal law + military justice. Federal statutes, regulations, cases, bills, executive orders, and treaties.”
“Built on publicly available legal data from LII Cornell, GovInfo, CourtListener, state legislatures, and agency portals.”
“Search 1,500+ items, compare state laws, check citations, track bills, explore 10 interactive simulations, and download legal forms.”
“Federal Regulations: Code of Federal Regulations via eCFR.gov, the official digital publication of the Government Publishing Office.”
“State Laws: Individual state legislature websites and LegiScan API, providing direct access to enacted legislation across all 50 states.”
“Every citation, statute number, case reference, and regulatory code is checked against at least two official sources (USCode.house.gov, eCFR, Federal Register, CourtListener) before publishing.”
“Published content is monitored for legislative changes, court decisions, or regulatory updates that may require revisions.”
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Timeline
5,298 → 5,302 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 5,298 |
| 2026-10-10 | 5,298 |
| 2026-10-18 | 5,302 |
| 2026-10-25 | 5,302 |
- 30 Sep 20265,298 pages
- 10 Oct 20265,298 pages
- 18 Oct 20265,302 pages
- 25 Oct 20265,302 pages