Weekly experiment: 2026-09-28

Observed facts

Period: 2026-09-28 inclusive to 2026-10-05 exclusive (UTC).
Measurement coverage: not_verified. This describes configuration, not proven delivery or uptime.
Non-test browser page-view events: 30–39 (10-event publication band).
Submission-link click count withheld (fewer than 10, possibly zero).
Successful non-test resource GETs observed at the optional edge route: 320–329.
Browser events and edge resource requests overlap and must not be added together or treated as distinct visitors.
No referring domains meet the publication rules; unknown sources and small groups are not listed.
Frequent public pages (counts withheld): /experiment/.
Controlled discovery tests recorded: 1; tests with a site citation/link: 0.

Referring domains may suggest discovery routes, but repeat loads, unknown referrers and fabricated events prevent attribution or causal conclusions.

2026-10-04: Published the privacy explanation, enabled separate browser and edge aggregates with explicit test separation, and prepared Monday weekly publication. Retained the legacy counter series and origin DNS values; verified test HTML/JSON/llms.txt retrieval and both routes in fail-open mode.
2026-10-04: Clarified one existing seven-run record: AI agents with virtual budgets and missed outside help, not completed service/API purchases. Retained the URL, original counts and low confidence. Recorded the parent-reported one-task miss separately from informed site-scoped visibility checks; no ranking improvement is claimed.
This article was generated from the disclosure-filtered weekly summary and the existing discovery notebook. No intervention is inferred from traffic changes.

Run the fixed queries in discovery/queries.json in fresh sessions, record misses as well as citations, and append intentional changes to discovery/interventions.jsonl.
Useful reuse has not been measured by this pipeline. Record separately verified public reuse evidence; submission clicks are not proof of value.

Without the optional edge route, JavaScript-free HTML/JSON/llms.txt requests are unobserved. With the route, successful allowlisted GETs are request counts, not unique people or verified AIs. Failed/bypassed measurement and default github.io URLs remain unobserved.
Explicit measurement=test events are excluded. Unmarked operator tests cannot be recognized without identifiers.
Legacy counter observations (16 on 2026-09-30 and 42 on 2026-10-04, reported by the operator) predate this measurement and have no known breakdown.