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The last digit of a percentage tells you whether anyone counted it.

We scanned 5,034 data claims across 46 domains and found that only 11.8% carry a date you can actually check.

1,006 citations. 516 domains. The weight behaves like 104.

One URL, its own history as the control, and a verdict that can admit it doesn't know.

No response count gives a self-selected reader poll a margin of error, so publication comes down to the sentence you're willing to attach to the votes you already have.

Every 'most' in your archive marks a number you never measured, and the people who could supply it are already reading the sentence.

Six dates, two kinds of witness, and the one record a publisher can never rewrite.

Your archive has a history, dependencies, and production traffic. Nothing is watching the build.

Every audit tool re-checks what lives on your own page: links, meta, copy. The column that rots is the cited statistic, and it rots at its source, on a page you don't control.

Three snippets render the same chart, and only one leaves the number on your page as text a crawler can read.