Baseline visit Older format: some facts reconstructed, descriptive only

wordpress.org

Requested addresshttps://wordpress.org/

Oct 19, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

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Comparison ReportOlder format: some facts reconstructed, descriptive only

Brave-list blocking off/on comparison

Recorded final address https://wordpress.org/
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What this actually means

wordpress.org recorded 7 fewer third-party requests in the visit configured for Brave-list blocking.

The visit with no blocking made 47 requests; the visit configured to apply Brave's ad-block engine and default Shields filter lists (a simulation in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave-browser visit) recorded 7 fewer third-party requests. The blocker directly stopped 2 requests; the remaining difference may include follow-on requests that never started once their sources were blocked, plus run-to-run variance.

1tracking-service entity
20cross-site requests
1fingerprint-like pattern
Observed in two automated visits: evidence to check, not a verdict.
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Plain-Language Findings

What this visit means

Unfamiliar terms are defined in the glossary
playwright-chromium

Worth checking

Bottom line: this visit has review-worthy signals

The scan observed signals a non-expert should not have to decode from raw request tables.

The cards below translate the evidence into plain language; severity reflects fixed reference thresholds, not measured population percentiles. The request log, domain table, and methodology remain below for verification.

47 requests observed in one controlled visit.

Context

7 requests matched Brave Shields filter lists

7 requests matched the default filter lists of Brave Shields, the ad and tracker blocker built into the Brave browser, while loading normally.

Computed with Brave's own ad-block engine and default filter lists in classification mode: matched requests were not blocked by the scanner and remain in this report's observed request counts. Matching shows what Shields would target on this visit's traffic; an actual Shields visit blocks these and also prevents their follow-on requests, so this number is neither a measured block count nor the total effect.

The hand-curated service catalog separately matched 5 request rows in this visit.Show matched requests

Not flagged

Lower values observed across comparable metrics in the Brave-list blocking attempt

The blocking visit ran with the scanner configured to apply Brave's ad-block engine and default Shields filter lists. It was a simulation in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave-browser visit, and application was not verified. Compared with the unblocked visit, it showed 7 fewer third-party requests and 5 fewer tracking-related service requests.

Services only seen in the unblocked visit: Google. The blocking visit's engine directly blocked 2 requests; the remaining difference may include follow-on requests that never started once their sources were blocked. A single paired comparison can also reflect run-to-run variance (ad rotation, caching, experiments), so treat this as an observed difference, not a measured blocking rate.

Signed per-metric differences between the two visits; nothing is summed across metrics.Show matched requests

Context

Privacy policy read; it made no statement this scan can check

None of the statements this scan knows how to check appear in the policy text, so nothing was compared against this visit's evidence (1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy). That is a limit of the automated check, not a finding about the site either way.

Statements checked automatically: blanket no-cookie claims, third-party-cookie claims, and combined do-not-sell-or-share claims against advertising-pixel identifier fields. Global Privacy Control claims are never checked against request counts, which cannot show whether selling or sharing stopped.

Policy at https://wordpress.org/about/privacy; 0 checkable statements matched; 1 of 1 observed tracking company named in the policy.

Context

Catalogued service domains recorded responses during this visit

Google appeared in the request log.

A catalog match identifies a maintainer-reviewed service/domain mapping; it does not establish why an individual request occurred, what it carried, or whether profiling happened. Functional catalog labels include analytics / tag management and advertising. This scan could not identify 2 of the 5 third-party hosts recorded here, so it cannot say who operates them. That is a limit of identity coverage, not evidence about the site.

20 cross-site requests across 5 third-party hosts.Modest distinct tracking-service entities count.Show third-party requests

Context

Requests were dispatched to catalogued major-platform domains

This visit dispatched requests to catalogued domains for Google.

The domain matches identify services, not the requests' purpose, payload, or whether any profile linking occurred.

5 requests to these platforms.Show catalog-matched requests

Not flagged

Google Analytics present, no remarketing signal

Google Analytics was observed, but no DoubleClick remarketing sync appeared in this visit.

Standard analytics collection was observed, without the stats.g.doubleclick.net advertising sync.

Google Analytics host observed; no stats.g.doubleclick.net request.Show catalog-matched requests

Not flagged

No third-party cookies observed

The automated visit did not observe third-party cookies.

This does not prove the site never uses cookies; it means this visit did not observe third-party cookies.

2 cookies total in this report.No third-party cookies observed.

Worth checking

Canvas fingerprinting heuristic matched

1 behavioral heuristic matched: Canvas fingerprinting heuristic.

These heuristics look for behavior patterns such as canvas readback after drawing, repeated canvas font measurement, WebGL entropy reads, offline audio rendering, or WebRTC peer-connection setup. They are review prompts for this visit, not proof of cross-site identity tracking.

Canvas fingerprinting heuristic: 1 canvas matched; reads: canvas.getImageData.

Brave Shields Comparison

No blocking → Brave-list blocking delta

No blocking: 3,036msBrave-list blocking: 2,273msRan first: Brave-list blocking
Some deltas are not comparable across these two visits and are not shown.
  • Other detector and causal-path deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): v1 never recorded detector versions, so fingerprinting and pixel deltas cannot be proven to come from matching instrumentation.
  • The Shields-number delta (each visit's own evidence still renders below): The two visits measured different Shields quantities (filter-list matches vs engine-blocked requests), which must never share a delta.
  • Fingerprinting deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): At least one visit did not complete the fingerprint measurement, so no exact cross-visit delta is shown.
  • Ad-pixel deltas (each visit's own evidence still renders below): At least one visit did not complete the pixel measurement, so no exact cross-visit delta is shown.
Requests-7No blocking: 47 · Brave-list blocking: 40
Third-party requests-7No blocking: 20 · Brave-list blocking: 13
Third-party domains-4No blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 1
Cookies-2No blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0
Third-party cookies0No blocking: 0 · Brave-list blocking: 0
Storage keys0No blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 1
Catalog-matched requests-5No blocking: 5 · Brave-list blocking: 0

Every signed change is Brave-list blocking minus No blocking. A positive or negative direction is descriptive, not a judgment that the result is better or worse.

Cookie and storage count deltas include every observation. Name-level lists show only reviewed names; unreviewed names are not itemized because they can contain identifiers.

Largest per-domain request-count changes

analytics.google.comGoogle · analytics / tag managementNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
www.googletagmanager.comGoogle · analytics / tag managementNo blocking: 2 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-2
*.wp.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 14 · Brave-list blocking: 13Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
*.*.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertisingNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1
pixel.wp.comunlabeled third partyNo blocking: 1 · Brave-list blocking: 0Show No blocking requests · Show Brave-list blocking requests-1

Domains only with Brave-list blocking

No domain changes observed.

Domains only with No blocking

analytics.google.comGoogle · analytics / tag management · Show No blocking requests2
www.googletagmanager.comGoogle · analytics / tag management · Show No blocking requests2
*.*.doubleclick.netGoogle · advertising · Show No blocking requests1
pixel.wp.comunlabeled · Show No blocking requests1

Visible cookie names only with Brave-list blocking

No visible cookie-name changes to show; privacy-filtered names are not itemized.

Visible cookie names only with No blocking

_ga.wordpress.orgfirst-party

Visible storage keys only with Brave-list blocking

No visible storage-key changes to show; privacy-filtered keys are not itemized.

Visible storage keys only with No blocking

No visible storage-key changes to show; privacy-filtered keys are not itemized.

Entities only with Brave-list blocking

No entity changes observed.

Entities only with No blocking

Google3 domains5

Measurement limits

6 conditions affect how this evidence reads

This report

  • Brave-list blocking comparison runs should be collected under matched crawl conditions, and the blocking run is a simulation with Brave's engine and default lists in this scanner's browser, not a live Brave visit. Differences can still reflect timing, experiments, cache state, consent state, or bot detection.
  • The two visits ran in randomized order; the "Brave-list blocking" visit ran first.

Both visits

  • Each visit in this report is one automated, headless Chromium visit from a fixed en-US / UTC profile, with no scrolling, clicking, or consent interaction. Sites can behave differently for real users, browsers, regions, accounts, or network locations.
  • Counts are a lower bound: trackers that load only after interaction or consent are not observed; Service Workers are blocked, and Web Worker or WebSocket traffic may be incomplete. Service labels use a US-biased hand-curated catalog, so regional services may be under-labeled. Cookie and storage figures are an end-of-visit snapshot, with storage keys read from the top frame only.
  • Read the site's privacy policy (https://wordpress.org/about/privacy) and compared its text against this visit's observed behavior. Policy checks are an automated text match with the matched sentences quoted, not a legal reading.

Brave-list blocking visit only

  • Brave Shields block simulation was enabled; matching requests were aborted before loading and are not included in request totals.

How to use this report

Read the findings and measurement limits first, then inspect the evidence for each recorded visit. Comparisons include both visits, even where a difference cannot be interpreted.

Keep this PDF with its evidence package: the source JSON, correction context, export receipt and SHA256SUMS. The package preserves source bytes and the correction context at export time. Hashes check file consistency; they do not establish independent measurement accuracy or a signed attestation.

Correction context SHA-256: 1a6acc2ad1147c0255b04d14d2748f411159a9516f818959dd3054be53ed216c

Renderer revision: 7ceac3bec3ed9b900be8a50e248d00dc73bf75fc

No blocking — evidence

2026-10-19T14:54:33.248Z · complete; derived from status and warnings

Retained observations from this visit. Missing measurements do not establish absence of activity.

Request attribution map

Which actor each third-party request is attributed to, from the initiator the browser reported. Attribution, not causation: an initiator may itself have been told what to fetch, and requests with no reported initiator are not distinguished from ones fetched from several. Asterisks mark subdomain labels hidden for privacy.
Attributed requests
20
Not attributable
0
Third-party requests
20

20 third-party requests: 20 attributed to a single recorded actor, 0 not attributable.

Select a relationship to see its detail and open the rows behind it.

By the numbers

Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests4720 third-party
Matched Shields lists7classification reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains51 distinct catalogued service entity
Cookies20 third-party
Storage keys11 key privacy-filtered; values omitted
Fingerprint API calls71 high-entropy heuristic matched
GPC signalConfigured offreadback not recorded
Duration3s2:54:33 PM UTC

Request composition & timeline

First-party requests 27
Other third-party requests 15
Catalog-matched third-party requests 5

47 requests were recorded from 45 ms to 841 ms. Open the request log for exact timing and request details.

0 ms841 ms

Domain evidence

6 recorded domains
DomainRoleRequestsCatalog matchResource types
www.googletagmanager.comservice2Google: analytics / tag managementscript
analytics.google.comservice2Google: analytics / tag managementfetch
*.*.doubleclick.netservice1Google: advertisingping
*.wp.comthird-party14No catalog matchimage, script
pixel.wp.comthird-party1No catalog matchimage
wordpress.orgfirst-party27No catalog matchdocument, font, stylesheet, script, image, fetch

Request log

47 recorded requests

In hosts and URLs, * and … mark details hidden for privacy.

Request references name this visit's retained JSON rows in order (B = baseline, V = variant, S = single). R0001 is the first request row.

RefTimeStatusTypeDomainProvenanceURL
B:R000145ms200documentwordpress.orgNot attributedhttps://wordpress.org/
B:R0002153ms200fontwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0003153ms200fontwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0004153ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0005154ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0006157ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0007158ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0008158ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0009159ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0010159ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0011159ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0012160ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0013161ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0014230ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0015241ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0016242ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0017242ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0018253ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0019257ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0020267ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0021293ms200scriptwww.googletagmanager.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id
B:R0022296ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0023297ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0024298ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0025298ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0026298ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0027298ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0028298ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0029299ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0030299ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0031299ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0032299ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0033300ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0034300ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
B:R0035300ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0036301ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0037301ms200script*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…
B:R0038301ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0039327ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0040328ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0041328ms200fontwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0042396ms200imagepixel.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://pixel.wp.com/…?v&…&ref
B:R0043402ms200fetchwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
B:R0044594ms200scriptwww.googletagmanager.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://www.googletagmanager.com/…?id&…
B:R0045840ms204fetchanalytics.google.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://analytics.google.com/…?v&tid&…&cid
B:R0046841ms204ping*.*.doubleclick.netinitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://*.*.doubleclick.net/…?v&…&tid&cid
B:R0047841ms204fetchanalytics.google.cominitiated by www.googletagmanager.comhttps://analytics.google.com/…?v&tid&…&cid

Brave-list blocking — evidence

2026-10-19T14:54:30.968Z · complete; derived from status and warnings

Retained observations from this visit. Missing measurements do not establish absence of activity.

Request attribution map

Which actor each third-party request is attributed to, from the initiator the browser reported. Attribution, not causation: an initiator may itself have been told what to fetch, and requests with no reported initiator are not distinguished from ones fetched from several. Asterisks mark subdomain labels hidden for privacy.
Attributed requests
13
Not attributable
0
Third-party requests
13

13 third-party requests: 13 attributed to a single recorded actor, 0 not attributable.

Select a relationship to see its detail and open the rows behind it.

By the numbers

Recorded counts and evidence availability from this one visit. The findings above interpret them.
Requests4013 third-party
Blocked by Brave lists2engine blocks reported by this visit; no engine readback recorded
Third-party domains10 distinct catalogued service entities
Cookies00 third-party
Storage keys11 key privacy-filtered; values omitted
Fingerprint API calls71 high-entropy heuristic matched
GPC signalConfigured offreadback not recorded
Duration2.3s2:54:30 PM UTC

Request composition & timeline

First-party requests 27
Other third-party requests 13
Catalog-matched third-party requests 0

40 requests were recorded from 41 ms to 362 ms. Open the request log for exact timing and request details.

0 ms362 ms

Domain evidence

2 recorded domains
DomainRoleRequestsCatalog matchResource types
*.wp.comthird-party13No catalog matchimage
wordpress.orgfirst-party27No catalog matchdocument, font, stylesheet, script, image, fetch

Request log

40 recorded requests

In hosts and URLs, * and … mark details hidden for privacy.

Request references name this visit's retained JSON rows in order (B = baseline, V = variant, S = single). R0001 is the first request row.

RefTimeStatusTypeDomainProvenanceURL
V:R000141ms200documentwordpress.orgNot attributedhttps://wordpress.org/
V:R0002146ms200fontwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0003147ms200fontwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0004148ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0005148ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0006151ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0007152ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0008153ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0009153ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0010153ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0011153ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0012155ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0013155ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0014239ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0015240ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0016240ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0017295ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0018295ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0019296ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0020296ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0021297ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0022297ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0023297ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0024297ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0025298ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0026298ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0027299ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0028299ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0029300ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0030300ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0031300ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0032300ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0033301ms200image*.wp.cominitiated by wordpress.orghttps://*.wp.com/…?…
V:R0034301ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0035301ms200scriptwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0036301ms200stylesheetwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0037328ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0038329ms200imagewordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0039329ms200fontwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…
V:R0040362ms200fetchwordpress.orginitiated by wordpress.orghttps://wordpress.org/…

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Integrity and provenance

Evidence receipt

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Report ID
20261019-231a2ea0a9a8e69d8ebbaa98519cfa6c
Site
wordpress.org
Latest visit
Schema
v1 schema · facts legacy-derived · descriptive report
Verify recorded provenance

Baseline visit

Started
Run quality
complete; derived from status and warnings
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
153.0.8010.12
Redaction
not recorded by this schema
Provenance
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.

Variant visit

Started
Run quality
complete; derived from status and warnings
Scanner
playwright-chromium
Browser
153.0.8010.12
Redaction
not recorded by this schema
Provenance
Exact build and instrument digests were not recorded by this legacy schema.

Recorded provenance is self-reported measurement metadata, not a cryptographic attestation. The public versioned report JSON contains the retained public evidence; see the methodology for interpretation and retention limits.

This report covers what the scanner measures, not everything a site can do. 17 browser surfaces are not instrumented at all (Every page except the one that was scanned; Anything that only loads after scrolling or interaction; Why a request happened, as a causal chain; and 14 others), 3 capabilities are declined by policy, and 3 are outside what any single visit can see. Their absence from this report is not evidence that they did not occur. Read the published coverage boundary.

Detector accuracy is unmeasured. No calibration study currently publishes a precision or recall for the detectors on this page, so a detector match here is a recorded observation, not a calibrated classification. How detector accuracy is measured.

Approved use boundary: This report is investigative evidence that requires independent corroboration. It is not a standalone legal determination and not the sole exhibit in a legal proceeding. Recorded in this project's release manifest on .

Reports record one automated visit per condition; visits may be incomplete. On restart-safe deployments, an interrupted visit may be retried; attempts are never merged. Results describe these visits, not everything a site can do.