Identity & Authority: Jekyll – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

Jekyll

(https://jekyllrb.com) πŸ“Έ Data Snapshot: May 27, 2026
Identity & Authority β€” 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.
15 Impact Weight: 15 / 100
100% Reputation

No authority gaps were detected. The News page identifies core team members and lead developers by name (e.g., ashmaroli, parkr), and the site’s technical implementation is flawless, featuring clean heading hierarchies and appropriate schema for a technical project.

The only performance claimβ€”’Get up and running in seconds’β€”is immediately substantiated by a four-line code block on the homepage. The site refrains from the usual SaaS fluff regarding productivity percentages or ‘transforming’ work, focusing instead on what the user can build.

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.

πŸ”— Identity & Technical Layer β€” schema JSON-LD: identity chains, entity gaps
Homepage schema
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebSite",
    "description": "Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs",
    "headline": "Jekyll β€’ Simple, blog-aware, static sites",
    "image": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/jekyll-og.png",
    "name": "Jekyll β€’ Simple, blog-aware, static sites",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/logo-2x.png"
        }
    },
    "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/"
}
/docs/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "BlogPosting",
    "dateModified": "2026-04-22T07:50:06-07:00",
    "datePublished": "2026-04-22T07:50:06-07:00",
    "description": "Jekyll is a static site generator. It takes text written in your favorite markup language and uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak the site’s look and feel, URLs, the data displayed on the page, and more.",
    "headline": "Quickstart",
    "image": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/jekyll-og.png",
    "mainEntityOfPage": {
        "@type": "WebPage",
        "@id": "https://jekyllrb.com/docs/"
    },
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/logo-2x.png"
        }
    },
    "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/docs/"
}
/resources/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebPage",
    "description": "Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs",
    "headline": "Resources",
    "image": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/jekyll-og.png",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/logo-2x.png"
        }
    },
    "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/resources/"
}
/news/
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@type": "WebPage",
    "author": {
        "@type": "Person",
        "name": "all"
    },
    "description": "Transform your plain text into static websites and blogs",
    "headline": "News",
    "image": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/jekyll-og.png",
    "publisher": {
        "@type": "Organization",
        "logo": {
            "@type": "ImageObject",
            "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/img/logo-2x.png"
        },
        "name": "all"
    },
    "url": "https://jekyllrb.com/news/"
}
πŸ›‘οΈ Trust Signals β€” external proof links that back the declared identity
2Review mentions (all pages)
0External proof links (all pages)
PageReviewsProof links
/ (home) 0 0
/docs/ 1 0
/resources/ 1 0
/news/ 0 0