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 IEO Engine security practice of serving error responses to commercial intelligence platform crawlers (Semrush, Ahrefs, Moz, DotBot) to prevent competitor intelligence tools from reporting on the site's architecture, ranking trajectory, or content structure.