## Why ClawFort currently lacks a formal SEO and structured-data specification, which limits discoverability and consistency for search crawlers. Defining this now ensures the news experience is indexable, standards-oriented, and performance-focused as the content footprint grows. ## What Changes - Add search-focused metadata requirements for the main page and policy pages (description, canonical, robots, social preview tags). - Define structured data requirements so the home page is represented as `Newspaper` and each news item is represented as `NewsArticle`. - Establish performance requirements for transport and caching behavior (HTTP compression and cache directives) plus front-end loading behavior. - Define UX and rendering requirements for image lazy loading with shimmer placeholders and smooth scrolling. - Require markup and interaction patterns that are compatible with strict standards validation goals. ## Capabilities ### New Capabilities - `seo-meta-and-social-tags`: Standardize meta, canonical, robots, and social preview tags for key public pages. - `news-structured-data`: Provide machine-readable `Newspaper` and `NewsArticle` structured data for homepage and article entries. - `delivery-and-rendering-performance`: Define response compression/caching and client-side loading behavior for faster page delivery. ### Modified Capabilities - None. ## Impact - **Frontend/UI:** `frontend/index.html` and static policy pages gain SEO metadata, structured-data hooks, and loading-state behavior requirements. - **Backend/API Delivery:** `backend/main.py` response middleware/headers are affected by compression and cache policy expectations. - **Quality/Validation:** Standards conformance and SEO validation become explicit acceptance criteria for this change. - **Operations:** Performance posture depends on HTTP behavior and deploy/runtime configuration alignment.