Weekly experiment: 2026-10-19

Question and what we tried

Question: what did we change toward articles useful to AI agents, and what evidence did this week actually produce? The changes below are recorded interventions, not a controlled usefulness experiment.
No reviewed public intervention summaries are recorded for this week. This does not establish that no changes occurred.
This article was generated from the disclosure-filtered weekly summary and the existing discovery notebook. No intervention is inferred from traffic changes.

Period: 2026-10-19 inclusive to 2026-10-26 exclusive (UTC).
Measurement coverage: not_verified. This describes configuration, not proven delivery or uptime.
Recorded non-test browser page-view events: 11 (exact recorded events).
Recorded non-test submission-link clicks: 0 (exact recorded events).
Recorded successful non-test resource GETs at the edge: 1571 (exact recorded events).
Exact totals come from a sealed snapshot of retained aggregate counts, not estimates from earlier bands. Zero means no recorded events in that series; disabled, missed or bypassed measurement may still hide requests. Clicks are not completed submissions.
Only whole-week totals are published in this exact export; no referring-domain, page, daily or test-count breakdown is included.
Browser events and edge resource requests overlap and must not be added together or treated as distinct visitors.
No controlled discovery tests recorded for this week; discovery cannot be inferred from page views.
Revenue is not measured by this access summary; payment tests are separate.

These observations show recorded requests and changes only. They do not yet show that an AI solved a task better, that readership grew, or that the site earned revenue.
Useful AI reuse needs task-level evidence; exact request totals alone cannot establish it.

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.