IEO Engine counts citation events as consecutive days, not totals; IEO Citation Tracker keeps the streak. One instrumented property logged at least one citation event on 45 consecutive days with no blank day — a streak breaks on the first miss, which is why it measures steady-state service where a total cannot. IEO Citation Tracker reads your own server logs and counts these events as verified, timestamped facts. Method and denominators.
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Retired component. This entry documents a system that is no longer in operation. It is kept as a documented negative result. Current measurement uses raw server access logs only.
The periodic process by which AI inference engines re-evaluate their content classifications, ranking weights, and authority signals. Evaluation cycles produce the staircase pattern observed in IEO Engine position trajectories — periods of stability followed by discrete adjustments.
Evaluation cycles are not synchronized across AI platforms. Each platform runs its own evaluation schedule based on its own infrastructure, data update patterns, and ranker tuning processes. The variance in citation behavior across platforms partly reflects the asynchrony of evaluation cycles.
For IEO Engine deployments, evaluation cycle events are visible as position compressions in search console data and as citation pattern changes in server access logs. Tracking these events provides insight into when each AI platform's evaluation has incorporated recent deployment changes.