Admin now shows two numbers:
- Recorded visits: the existing raw count (one daily 'visit' beacon; still includes
UA-spoofing bots that slip past the UA filter).
- Engaged readers: distinct visitor-day with DELIBERATE activity — either the new
gesture-gated 'engaged' beacon (fires once/day only after ~8s visible AND a real
scroll/pointer/key/touch) or a deliberate action (source_click, full_story, share,
replace_used, paywall_replace, not_today/less_like_this/hide_topic, game start/
complete/share). Explicitly EXCLUDES auto-fired visit/summary_viewed/open, replace_none,
and game *_arrival (a share-loop landing, not engagement).
armEngaged() in analytics.js (wired in the global layout) + a mirrored vanilla-JS beacon
on the server-rendered /a/<id> share pages. 'engaged' added to the event allowlist and
fired with article_id=0 so the uniqueness constraint dedups it per day. queries.admin_stats
gains engaged_today/d7/d30. Bots are doubly excluded (UA filter at the beacon + the
gesture gate). Tests cover the metric (engaged + deliberate counted; visit/summary/arrival
not). 447 backend + 36 frontend tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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