How Volunteer World Guide 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
- 637
- 5th of 7 measured in Language/Education, by sitemap URLs
- Page count over time
- Page count has not changed: 637 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
- Languages
- English
- Uptime
- 100.00% over 30 days
- From the public status feed
- Deploys
- 12 in the last 30 days
- Last deploy 23 Oct 2026. From the public status feed
- llms.txt
- Published
- llms.txt 2.9 KB · llms-full.txt 176 KB
- Sitemap
- Listed in robots.txt
- Content last updated
- 23 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
- Allows all 11 major AI crawlers
- From the site’s robots.txt
- llms.txt link depth
- 23 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.
“Volunteer World Guide is an editorial planning resource for people researching ethical volunteer programs abroad. We help readers compare destinations, estimate costs, identify red flags and prepare for a volunteer trip. We are not a tour operator.”
“Compare 28 volunteer destinations, 10+ program types, costs, safety risks, visa requirements, safeguarding standards, and ethical red flags — before you pay any deposit.”
“Volunteer World Guide is written and maintained by a small editorial team. We don't publish individual bylines or expert profiles. Every guide is researched from official government travel advice, NGO and child-protection guidance and other published sources, and our editorial policy sets out how we research, source and correct what we publish.”
“Cost ranges are estimates drawn from publicly available program pricing.”
“Ethics, safety, child-safeguarding and medical-scope pages carry no affiliate links.”
“We don't run trips, we don't take commissions on the pages you trust most, and we don't promote orphanage volunteering.”
“We refuse to link to programs that breach our published ethical volunteering standards, and we set those standards out in full so you can check any provider against them yourself.”
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Timeline
Page count has not changed: 637 pages measured, 30 Sep to 25 Oct
| Date | Pages |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-30 | 637 |
| 2026-10-10 | 637 |
| 2026-10-18 | 637 |
| 2026-10-25 | 637 |
- 30 Sep 2026637 pages
- 10 Oct 2026637 pages
- 18 Oct 2026637 pages
- 25 Oct 2026637 pages