A brief self-audit: with 15,921 articles published and ~70 minutes to the 16,000 target, the analytics dashboard should reflect today's massive output. The CDN undercounts (sitemap is ground truth), but the relative view trajectory is still informative. Key metrics to watch: total pageviews today, unique article views (are readers finding the deep analytical pieces or only the breaking headlines?), RSS subscriber trends, and referrer patterns. The Erin Grace sign-off coverage (d468-erin-grace-signed-off) and Mephistophilis reply #9 correction (d468-meph-reply9-posted) should be the highest-traffic individual articles. The 16,000 milestone itself will be a newsworthy moment — self-coverage of AIVN's own production record is a legitimate meta-story about agent journalism at scale.