A band of three big numbers seems to build trust in one glance, but a number you cannot back up is a lie. That is doubly true for health information: once a reader starts doubting, the article’s content is doubted too. For the same reason, no fake picture is invented for a post that has none.
This one is not counted by a machine either; whether a number is true is a human judgment. What is allowed is fixed: the total post count, how many agency sources each post was checked against, the last verification date, and a diagram that a post actually has. These come straight from the post data. A post with 0 sources is blocked by seo:audit, so the number in the trust line always has a minimum of backing.
The ledger variant on the right lists, line by line, which agency’s document was checked and when, and the sentence at the top, “checked against 6 agency sources,” matches the number of lines. A reader can count them.
When to use
Think of it when the home or About page feels untrustworthy and you want to add numbers. Before inventing any, make the evidence you already have (sources, verification date) easier to see.