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title: "Shield Analytics"
description: "Per-widget verification metrics, humanity score trends, and what Shield does — and deliberately doesn't — store."
url: https://edge.network/docs/shield/analytics/
---

# Shield Analytics

Shield

# Analytics

Every widget has a Metrics tab in the control panel with verification volumes, humanity
score trends, and failure counts — built entirely from hourly aggregates.

## Available Metrics

Open **Shield → your widget → Metrics** and select a range (24 hours, 7 days,
or 30 days):

| Metric | What it tells you |
| Verifications | Successful siteverify calls — traffic your server accepted a token for |
| Challenges issued | How many verification attempts started — the widget's raw traffic |
| Average humanity score | Score trend over time — a sudden drop is an early warning of a bot campaign |
| Solve rate | Challenges solved ÷ issued — low rates suggest clients abandoning or failing the challenge |
| Interactive shown | How often managed mode escalated to the "I am human" confirmation |
| Failed / replayed | Rejected siteverify calls, including replay attempts — your token-abuse signal |

## Reading the Data

- **Average score falling** while volume rises usually means automated traffic has arrived. Check the interactive-shown count — in managed mode it should rise with it.
- **Replays above zero** mean something is resubmitting used tokens — typically a naive bot re-posting a captured form. Shield rejects these automatically.
- **Issued far exceeding verifications** is normal — every page load with a widget issues a challenge, but only submitted forms reach siteverify.

## Data Retention & Privacy

All analytics are **hourly aggregate counters per widget**.
Shield does not store visitor IP addresses, fingerprints, cookies, or any per-visitor
records — the signals used for scoring are processed in memory during the request and
discarded. There is no per-visitor drill-down because there is no per-visitor data.

This is what makes Shield GDPR/CCPA-friendly by default: there's nothing to consent to,
export, or delete.

## Next Steps

[Server-Side Validation Act on the humanity score](https://edge.network/docs/shield/siteverify) [Getting Started Protect your first form](https://edge.network/docs/shield/getting-started)
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