Blog from merged PR #1157

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Blog publication task for PR #1157

Source: #1157
Merged commit: 18dafd748fe48f983145b39d4b8266a8402fa3d9

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Counting where blog readers come from

DRAFT — Merged PR; unpublished blog draft

PR: #1157

Head SHA: 7ecadeb9787e0cc29df3526240c113fdb6043740

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Merged PR; unpublished blog draft. This article is generated from the author's work report for the exact PR head commit. Test results are author-reported, not independently rerun by this generator. Merge status is not proof of deployment or runtime correctness.

Work report

The site now counts a visit that arrives from a tagged blog link: it reads the utm tags from its own address once per browser session and reports them to the render service, which keeps a count per day and channel and nothing personal.

What changed

• New module src/lib/trafficArrival.ts reads utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign and utm_content from the query before the hash and reports them once per session.
• main.tsx calls the report at the entry, except when the page is about to redirect to the legacy Queen address.
• New contract qa/traffic-arrival-contract.mjs with nine checks, wired as npm run check:traffic-arrival.

Context and reasoning

A tag on a link measures nothing until the page it lands on reads it and reports it somewhere.

The site reads the tags before the hash, where the hash router leaves them, and reports each visit once per browser session.

The render service keeps only a count per day and channel, with a per-address rate limit, and stores no person.

Reported verification

• [passed] Command: node apps/website/qa/traffic-arrival-contract.mjs. Result: The contract ran nine checks and all nine passed.. Evidence: Output: traffic-arrival contract: 9 checks passed
• [passed] Command: Mutation: remove the once-per-session guard, then rerun the contract. Result: The contract failed on the once-per-session check, so the guard is tested.. Evidence: The contract exited non-zero naming the session check; restoring the guard made it pass again.
• [not_run] Command: lefthook pre-commit hooks of this repository. Result: The hooks were not run because the clone had no installed node_modules.. Evidence: The commit was made with hooks bypassed; CI Website checks are the gate instead.

Limits and open questions

• Counting depends on the render route /api/traffic/arrival being public; that fix shipped separately in gHashTag/999-multibots-telegraf#2982.
• Only tagged visits are counted; an untagged visit is not reported as direct traffic because it cannot be proven.

Receipts

• gHashTag/trinity PR #1157
• Reported head commit 7ecadeb9787e
• Merge commit 18dafd748fe4

Topic tags

#analytics #utm #website

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