Release recency across 10 npm packages used for SEO implementation

A fixed-cohort snapshot of release dates, deprecation notices, runtime requirements, licenses, and maintainer counts for 10 npm packages.

First published: Sep 13, 2026 · Beginner
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All 10 fixed-cohort npm packages were available on September 13, 2026, and none of their latest versions carried an npm deprecation notice. Nine had published a release since February 2026; robots-parser's latest release dated to February 2023. Release recency and deprecation metadata are maintenance signals, not adoption or quality scores.

This snapshot covers 10 reviewed packages spanning audits, sitemapsA sitemap is a file that lists the pages, images, videos, and other files on your site so search engines can discover them. It helps discovery, but submitting a sitemap doesn't guarantee crawling or indexing., robots parsing, structured dataStructured data is a standardized way of labeling page content (using the schema.org vocabulary in JSON-LD, Microdata, or RDFa) so search engines can understand its meaning. It's not a direct ranking factor — its value is rich results and entity understanding., and framework metadata.

Data study

Days since the latest npm release

Nine packages had a release in 2026. robots-parser's latest published version was about 1,300 days old at collection time.

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MeasureAge of latest release
robots-parser1,300 days
sitemap197 days
react-helmet-async194 days
schema-dts174 days
lighthouse55 days
next-seo46 days
@unhead/schema-org23 days
astro-seo16 days
@nuxtjs/robots2 days
@nuxtjs/sitemap1 day

Release recency as of September 13, 2026. A recent release does not prove quality; an older stable release does not prove abandonment.

Methodology: The collector queried fixed package names from the public npm registry and retained latest-version date, deprecation notice, runtime requirement, license, and maintainer count. Download counts and maintainer identities were excluded. npm public registry.

No latest version carried an npm deprecation notice. That is a registry fact, not a security review or endorsement. The cohort is editorially selected and does not represent every JavaScript SEOMaking sure search engines can crawl, render, and index content that depends on JavaScript. package.

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