#467 Event pages of log timelines crowd the sitemap

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: athanclark

The synthetic incident timeline athan/incident-2026-03-14 gives each log line a page of its own in the sitemap: 2,299 of timescale.info's 9,647 URLs (24%). The pages are thin, about 285 words mostly of boilerplate. Their titles repeat, such as "GET /api/orders 200 21ms · Incident 2026-03-14: orders API outage", which appears several times.

Many thin, near-duplicate pages can lower how search engines rate a site's other pages.

Wanted: a timeline can keep its own page indexed while its events' pages are left out of the sitemap and marked noindex. For example, a per-timeline setting "List events for search engines", off by default for timelines filled by the log importers (syslog, journald, log files). For timescale.info, it would be turned off for the incident timeline.

Found in an SEO audit of timescale.info on 2026-11-06.

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[Anonymous]

Ticket changed by: athanclark

• status: open --> closed