How UK Law Reference 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
- 1,962
- 15th of 24 measured in Legal/Civic, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- 1,952 → 1,962 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Uptime
- 100.00% over 30 days
- From the public status feed
- Deploys
- 27 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 24 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 7.3 KB · llms-full.txt 1.1 MB
- Feed
- Published
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 21 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
- Organization, WebSite
- schema.org types on the homepage
- AI crawler access
- Blocks 4 of 11: CCBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, Meta-ExternalAgent
- 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.
- 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.
“UK Law Reference is a free, open-access educational resource dedicated to making English law accessible to everyone — litigants in person, members of the public, students, researchers, and journalists.”
“Our mission is to provide clear, accurate, and comprehensive summaries of the laws that govern life in England and Wales — from foundational statutes to landmark cases, from everyday rights to complex legal topics.”
“141 topic explainers. Each page summarises the law, key statutes, key cases, common problems, and links to related guides/scenarios.”
“All content is based on primary legislation from legislation.gov.uk, official law reports, and established legal textbooks.”
“Every statute references its official legislation.gov.uk URL. Every case cites its neutral citation and court.”
“The law changes constantly. We monitor legislation.gov.uk, the UK Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, and parliamentary proceedings to ensure our content reflects the latest legal position. Each page shows when it was last reviewed.”
“UK Law Reference is editorially independent. We are not affiliated with any law firm, government body, or political organisation. Our content is written to inform, not to advocate for any particular legal position.”
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Timeline
1,952 → 1,962 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 1,952 |
| 2026-10-10 | 1,954 |
| 2026-10-18 | 1,961 |
| 2026-10-25 | 1,962 |
- 30 Sep 20261,952 pages
- 10 Oct 20261,954 pages
- 18 Oct 20261,961 pages
- 25 Oct 20261,962 pages