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June 2026

RSS feeds launched — Main, research, and Indonesian feeds at /feed/, /research/feed/, /id/feed/, /id/research/feed/
PWA installable — Service worker with offline support; install Komodo Guide as a mobile/desktop app
Image compression — Hero images optimized 32 MB → 9.9 MB; LCP impact major
Sitemap split — 11 themed sub-sitemaps for better crawler triage
HTML sitemap — User-friendly browse at /sitemap-html/
Press kit — Resources for journalists at /press/
Security disclosure — RFC 9116 security.txt
Custom 404 — Friendlier error page with search
Wikidata linkage — Place schemas now include sameAs Q-IDs for Knowledge Graph eligibility
Dublin Core meta — Academic-discovery friendly metadata on 366 article pages

KGCO Certification program launched — three-tier audit standard for Komodo tour operators (/certification/)
3 certified operator profiles — komodoexplorer.com (Tier 3), tripkomodotour.com (Tier 2), boatkomodotrip.com (Tier 1)
Ownership disclosure — Editorial-firewall policy published (/about/ownership/)
Site reaches 383 pages — 100% Wikipedia-grade audit baseline
1,913 JSON-LD blocks across 30+ schema types — zero parse errors
100% FAQ + Speakable schema on indexable pages
18 Wikipedia-style taxonomy infoboxes on komodo-dragon biology pages
83 "See also" sections + 65 "External links" on research papers

20+ research papers added — including iron-teeth (LeBlanc 2024), venom histochemistry (Janeczek 2025), expedition chronology, ICZN type specimen
nofollow policy applied — External links nofollow except wikipedia.org and .edu domains
ULTRA TOTAL AEO/GEO push — TL;DR boxes on 311 pages, Cite-this-page on 126
llms.txt + ai.txt deployed — LLM/AI discovery files at root