Data Changelog

This log lists material corrections and surface changes PlainWarranty applied after publication, including the 2026-08-10 rate-ranking sample floor, the trailing-slash dual-200 consolidation, the regulated-states census fix, page-vintage sitemap lastmods, and the live census SSR alignment. Each entry is past-tense and tied to a repository commit; we do not invent rows to pad the list. How to report an issue is on the editorial & corrections policy and the typed corrections pathway. This public log starts on 2026-08-08. Data current as of 2026-06-15.

  1. · Data integrity

    Raised rate-ranking floors on highest-rated and most-trusted lists to a minimum of 50 reviews, added the cohort median as an anchor, and noted #1 volatility so small-sample averages cannot crown a ranking.

  2. · Index-surface

    Set trailingSlash to never with middleware canonical redirects so slash and noslash hub pairs stop serving as dual-200 duplicates.

  3. · Data integrity

    Stopped folding partly-regulated states into an unregulated "no" bucket on the regulated-states census so the homepage and state surfaces match the three-way regulation label in the database.

  4. · Index-surface

    Replaced portal-wide sitemap lastmods with per-route page-vintage stamps from git history and warranty data vintage so crawl dates reflect real page edits instead of one shared extract stamp.

  5. · Data integrity

    Replaced stale prerender census figures on about, methodology, editorial, FAQ, and tools pages with live SSR totals from the database, and aligned FAQ wording with the Reliability Score rather than complaint scores.

Download the listed-issuer reliability snapshot cited on this page: warranty-registry-statistics.csv (same CSV as /statistics, CC0).