"Shown" is a placeholder for "recorded as shown". This is technically some async call to a metrics endpoint. There may be correlation in a processing pipeline w

"Shown" is a placeholder for "recorded as shown". This is technically some async call to a metrics endpoint. There may be correlation in a processing pipeline with other metrics/pageviews but that's not something that can be assumed. Ultimately, however they measure ads shown, they have some process to determine what they believe to be bot ad views. We can only discuss at that level without more information.