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MEASUREMENT METHODOLOGY

Measure useful research, not empty traffic.

VLSI Market separates page views from qualified research activity. Analytics are first-party, optional, pseudonymous, and designed to improve search, source discovery, data exports, and recurring market workflows—not advertising profiles.

NORTH-STAR DEFINITION

Qualified Monthly Active Researcher

Definition

Qualified MAU (QMAU) is one consented, pseudonymous visitor who completes at least one validated source open or official dataset export during the trailing 28 days. Repeated actions by the same browser identity count once. A page view, 15-second read, bare search, discovery-result opening, chart interaction, save, alert, feedback, or share alone never qualifies in this launch schema.

Explicit exclusions

Verified bots, low bot-score requests, crawlers, uptime monitors, automated browser traffic, staff-marked internal traffic, Global Privacy Control, and Do Not Track sessions are excluded before insertion.

MEANINGFUL EVENT CONTRACT

Versioned, bounded, and auditable

Schema 2026-08-07.mau-events-2

EventWhat it meansQMAU role
content_engaged15 visible seconds plus at least 25% page depthDiagnostic only
search_submittedA non-empty search, stored only as length and broad topic classDiagnostic only
search_result_openedOpening a result from the semiconductor discovery indexDiagnostic only
chart_interactedChanging a series, range, or chart controlDiagnostic in the launch schema
source_openedFollowing an evidence link to its controlling sourceQualified with a validated source ID and class
export_startedStarting an official CSV data exportQualified with a validated dataset ID and format
watchlist_saved / alert_savedCreating a local watchlist item or source update alertDiagnostic in the launch schema
share_createdCreating a stable share or citation pathDiagnostic in the launch schema
DATA MINIMIZATION

What is—and is not—retained

Retained with consent

Event and consent schema versions, event time, query-free path, market workspace, coarse device class, coarse country code supplied by the edge, campaign labels, external referrer hostname, bounded event properties, and double-hashed random visitor and session keys.

Never written to the event ledger

IP addresses, names, email addresses, account identities, raw search queries, full referrer URLs, user-agent strings, third-party advertising IDs, precise locations, and page query strings. On each accepted ingestion, rows received more than 400 days earlier are removed; if no events arrive, cleanup runs on the next accepted ingestion. A double-hashed anonymous session is limited to 300 accepted events per rolling hour.

YOUR CONTROL

Change or withdraw consent

Current setting: analytics disabled

Disabling analytics requests deletion of events linked to this browser's current anonymous key, then removes the local visitor and session identifiers. VLSI Market remains fully functional when analytics are disabled.