Glossary · Measurement and evidence
log file analysis
Reading the server's own request records to learn who fetched what, when, from which address, and what status they received. It is the only first-party evidence of crawler behaviour; everything else is inference from the outside. Every forge rate and verification figure in a report is a statement about logs, whether or not the tool had them, so a rate computed without access to the logs is inferred and should be labelled so. Edge providers keep their own logs, which see requests the origin never receives.
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Measurement and evidence
The vocabulary for saying how strongly something is known.
evidence level · false positive · denominator note · percentile rank · population baseline · cohort asymmetry · self-audit invariant · unscored measurement · dated series · change receipt · regression · finding age · graded through a wall · self-audit · placeholder in record · fetcher disagreement · own-host loop · score version · row review · double-counted defect · cosmetic row · gated row · AI referral attribution
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