Endpoint Retrieval Rate
The direct test of whether structural work is being used rather than merely published.
- Measures
- Requests to the property's manifest, catalog, health, federation, and plain-text summary endpoints, by client and over time.
- Data Source
- Raw server request logs.
- Indicates
- That the declarations are being read, not just served.
- What Moves It
- Advertising the endpoints where machines look: robots.txt, an alternate link in the page head, and inside the manifest itself.
- Does Not Prove
- That what was read changed any system's behaviour.
- Status
- Measured. Notably, this is one of the few checks that can prove structural work reached anything at all.
If these files are never fetched, the structural work is a claim rather than a result. That is a useful thing to find out early, and it is invisible to every other measure.