seo: add /about page with neutral brand voice#99
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External SEO audit (Section 3 #7) flagged the absence of an About page as a missing EEAT signal — search quality raters and AI answer engines look for one to confirm a project is real and verifiable. Ship one. Constraints honored: * Neutral brand voice — no founder names anywhere. The Statewave project is the identity for public surfaces; individual contributors are visible on GitHub. Sign-off is "the Statewave team". * No managed-cloud / VC framing — the positioning that already runs across the site (open source, self-hosted, Apache-2.0, framework-neutral, provenance-first) carries through verbatim. * No drift on proof figures — hoisted the 680 / 55 / 8/8 / 2/8 stats out of HomePage.tsx into a shared src/lib/proof-stats.ts so the homepage hero, the deeper ProofSection, and now /about all cite the same source. Matches the "proof figures mirrored across many surfaces — recompute together" rule. Page layout (mirrors the simple-page idiom from CookiesPage etc.): 1. Eyebrow + h1 + mission paragraph (what Statewave is and why) 2. "What we're committed to" — four principles (open source / self-hosted / provenance first / framework-neutral) 3. "Proven, not promised" — the same PROOF_STATS the homepage surfaces, plus a link to statewave-bench so anyone can repro 4. "What we ship" — the nine public statewave-* repos with a one-line description of each 5. "Get in touch" — GitHub issues for product, licensing@ for commercial, press@ for press, security@ for disclosures. Wiring (PUBLIC_ROUTES is the single source of truth for sitemap, nav, and llms.txt — adding /about flows through all of them): * src/lib/seo-meta.ts — add '/about' to RouteKey union and PUBLIC_ROUTES; add PAGE_META entry with breadcrumb, title, description, priority 0.6, monthly changefreq. * src/App.tsx — lazy route for AboutPage. * src/components/Navbar.tsx — top-nav link (last position). * src/components/Footer.tsx — link in the Community column. * public/sitemap.xml — new <url> entry. * public/llms.txt — new "About" line in the Primary links list. Verification: * `npm run build` — 1.5% HTML size delta on the homepage (+152 bytes from the extra nav link, well under SSR floor). * `npx vitest run` — 282 + 1 skipped. The sitemap-parity test in tests/seo-static.test.ts (which iterates PUBLIC_ROUTES) and the JSON-LD URL tests pick up /about automatically. * `npm run lint`, `npm run typecheck` — green.
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Summary
External SEO audit (Section 3 #7) flagged the absence of an About page as a missing EEAT signal — search quality raters and AI answer engines look for one to confirm a project is real and verifiable. Ship one, with the project's existing constraints intact.
Constraints honored
Page layout
Mirrors the simple-page idiom from `CookiesPage` / `ImpressumPage`:
Wiring
`PUBLIC_ROUTES` is the single source of truth for sitemap, nav, and llms.txt — adding `/about` flows through all of them:
Test plan