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title: "Shield Examiner"
description: "An AI review of your Shield widget's traffic: bot pressure, escalation calibration, abuse signals, and recommended thresholds — from aggregate data only, free on every widget."
url: https://edge.network/shield/examiner/
---

# Shield Examiner

[Shield](https://edge.network/shield)

Shield

# The Examiner

An AI review of your widget's traffic that turns 30 days of metrics into a plain-English
assessment — what's healthy, what's under attack, what to tune — with specific fixes.
Free on every widget.

[Run a Review](https://edge.network/account) [Read the Docs](https://edge.network/docs/shield/examiner)

## Your security analyst, on tap

Analytics tell you what happened. The Examiner tells you what it means — and what to do
about it.

### Traffic Health

Challenge volumes, solve rates, and verification patterns — explained in terms of what they mean for your site, not raw numbers.

### Bot Pressure

How much automation is hitting the widget, whether it's declared (verified agents) or anonymous, and whether it's trending up.

### Escalation Calibration

Whether your interactive-confirmation rate suggests genuine suspicious traffic or an over-challenged audience — VPNs, privacy browsers — and what to do about it.

### Abuse Signals

Token replays, verification failures, score collapses, and drift anomalies — the traces real attacks leave in aggregate data.

### Configuration Fit

Whether your widget mode, verified-agents policy, and hostname allowlist match the traffic you're actually receiving — plus recommended siteverify score thresholds.

### Health Score

Every review produces a 0–100 health score with prioritised findings, so you can see at a glance whether anything needs attention.

## Three steps, a few seconds

No setup, no configuration. If your widget has traffic, the Examiner has opinions.

1

### Open the Examiner tab

Every Shield widget has an Examiner tab in the control panel.

2

### Run a review

The analysis covers your last 30 days of traffic and takes a few seconds.

3

### Apply the fixes

Findings come with specific recommendations — apply them in Settings or your siteverify handling. Your last ten reviews are saved.

## Aggregates only. By architecture.

The Examiner analyses hourly aggregate counters — challenge volumes, solve rates, score
averages, abuse counts — plus your widget's configuration. Nothing else exists to analyse.

Shield holds no per-visitor data, so none can be reviewed or shared. That's not a
policy decision; it's how the system is built.

Hourly aggregate counters
Widget configuration
Individual visitor data
IP addresses or fingerprints
Browsing history

## Free with every widget

Run reviews as often as you like, on every widget. Like all of Shield, the Examiner is free.

[Get Started](https://edge.network/account) [Examiner Docs](https://edge.network/docs/shield/examiner)