A daily counter can answer how many requests occurred. It cannot identify every request, recover its exact time, or explain which read path it used. That distinction became visible when a page had a nonzero AI-request total but no individual visits to list.

The system needed richer records for new …

A paginated operations screen took 27.49 seconds to return ten kilobytes of data. The small response ruled out payload transfer as the main problem, and the browser timing alone could not explain whether the delay came from rendering, application code, or the database.

The useful clue was that one …