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    "definition_version": "1.0",
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    "definition_doc": "docs/指標定義_AI読者数.md",
    "data_layer_doc": "docs/指標定義_AI読者アクセス.md",
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    "path_scope_note": "Only requests whose path starts with /us/ (this edition's pages and API files). Shared root files (/, /llms.txt, /index.json, /api/world.json) are not attributed to any edition. Same definition, same UA table and same self-exclusion rule as the Japan edition; only the path filter differs.",
    "observation_start": "2026-08-29",
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    "published_series": "Headline = requests Cloudflare verified as known bots (verifiedBotCategory). Unverified counts listed separately; the self-declared total is a reference upper bound only.",
    "counted": "HTTP requests from AI-declared user agents to ai-lifeline.org under this path prefix (Cloudflare edge measurement; our own traffic excluded by UA)",
    "not_means_1": "Not proof that an AI read the page. UA strings are self-declared and can be spoofed; verification is Cloudflare judgement, not ours. Unverified does not mean spoofed.",
    "not_means_2": "Not readers, people or sessions: one request = one file.",
    "not_means_3": "Says nothing about training use.",
    "privacy": "No IP addresses are collected or stored; raw UA strings are not published, only AI-name classes.",
    "self_exclusion": "Our own traffic is identified by UA and excluded; the excluded counts are published (self_excluded).",
    "sampling_note": "Counts are Cloudflare sample counts (as in the Japan edition); no sampling correction is applied.",
    "provisional_note": "Weeks that have not ended are provisional. Series started with the edition launch, so early weeks are partial."
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