Jokers let me explain it like I’m 5.
The metrics are not public, but you can bet they are reported internally to caffeine leadership. Weekly at a minimum.
Nobody is creating fake sites, just to create fake sites. Someone is doing it, because someone stands to benefit.
Those numbers don’t exist in a vaccuum, they are being used to make future projections and justify tokenomics changes.
Every canister caffeine make spawn with ~1.2ish tcycles… 3k canisters a day. do the math.