Audience for advertisers
Every request is classed at the paper's own edge: a person, a search crawler, an AI crawler, or other automation. The numbers above count people only.
No cookie, no tracker, no per-person store. One limit, stated plainly: a scraper that poses as an ordinary browser is caught only by behavioural scoring, which is not yet on, so it can still reach the human count.
The figures a buyer pays against first are being built. We show what is exact today and never estimate the rest.
These figures are signed with the newsroom's own key, so an advertiser can confirm they were not changed after the paper produced them. The signature proves where the numbers came from and that they are unchanged; it does not certify the counting method, which is stated above.