CHANGELOG

BuildYard Changelog

This changelog records significant project-wide changes that affect calculator quality, discoverability, transparency, or site behavior. It is not a complete list of every code change.

September 16, 2026

• Added explicit access rules for major search and AI discovery crawlers in robots.txt.
• Added AI referral tracking in Google Analytics 4, subject to the site's analytics consent settings.
• Added Editorial & Calculation Standards, Sources & References, and this public changelog.
• Added Google Analytics 4 with Google Consent Mode v2 and updated the Privacy and Cookie policies accordingly.
• Added llms.txt and its robots.txt discovery reference.
• Added IndexNow support for faster URL discovery by participating search engines.
• Expanded static server-visible HTML so headings, explanatory content, FAQs, and internal links are available without client-side rendering.

September 15, 2026

• Completed a validation pass across all 188 calculators using the closest available public workflows from BuildCalc Pro, YardsCalculator, YardLoad, and CoverMyYard.
• Reviewed identified formula differences, corrected issues where appropriate, and preserved regression tests.
• Expanded page-level SEO metadata and structured data across the calculator catalog.