The one number that drifted was the one that changed
In August 2026 we found 5 benchmark claims on our website that didn’t match the results they were copied from. An audit then compared all 33 numbers in the website’s benchmark data file with their source, and it found that 32 of 33 matched exactly. The one that didn’t was the only field whose source had changed since someone copied it. A citation tells you where a number came from. It doesn’t tell you whether the number still matches the source, so the website and this blog now check that in CI. ...