Identity & Authority: collectd – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

collectd

(https://collectd.org) 📸 Data Snapshot: May 26, 2026
Identity & Authority — The Lens

Inspect the JSON-LD. Is there an Organization or Person schema, and does it carry sameAs links to real external profiles (LinkedIn, socials)? Missing schema or no identity declaration signals an anonymous entity.

Identity & Authority Expert verifiability & Schema depth.
13 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
87% Reputation

The site’s authority is established through technical transparency rather than corporate branding. While it lacks Person schema for its developers, it explicitly mentions contributors by name (Sebastian Harl, Matt Peterson, Krzysztof Stryjek) and points to an AUTHORS file in the source distribution. A small authority gap exists due to some stale package references (Version 4.1.0), which are several years old relative to the 2026 anchor date.

There is no disconnect between marketing tone and actual demonstration. The site is remarkably honest about its limitations, explicitly stating in an H3 that it ‘does not generate graphs’ and that monitoring is ‘limited to simple threshold checking.’ This level of technical transparency is the antithesis of marketing BS.

Identity & Authority is read from the structured data first: whether the site declares who it is in machine-readable schema, with verifiable identity links. Below is the schema captured per page, then the external proof links that support (or fail to support) that identity.

🔗 Identity & Technical Layer — schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebSite",
    "description": "The system statistics collection daemon",
    "headline": "collectd",
    "name": "collectd",
    "url": "http://collectd.org/"
}
/index.html
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebSite",
    "description": "The system statistics collection daemon",
    "headline": "collectd",
    "name": "collectd",
    "url": "http://collectd.org/"
}
/download.html
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebPage",
    "description": "The system statistics collection daemon",
    "headline": "Download",
    "url": "http://collectd.org/download.html"
}
/documentation/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebPage",
    "description": "The system statistics collection daemon",
    "headline": "Documentation",
    "url": "http://collectd.org/documentation/"
}
🛡️ Trust Signals — external proof links that back the declared identity
2Review mentions (all pages)
0External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 1 0
/index.html 1 0
/download.html 0 0
/documentation/ 0 0