Your weekly protection report: what it should tell you

A protection service's report is where promises meet evidence. Whether you pay Nullva or anyone else — or run the patrol yourself and keep your own log — the report is the one artifact that shows the work. Here is what a real one contains, what each number means, and the questions that separate a working service from a subscription to reassurance.

The core of any honest report is five counts for the period: found, filed, removed, pending, re-uploaded. Found is what the scans surfaced that period — new copies, not the all-time pile. Filed is what went out: notices to hosts and platforms, delisting requests to search engines. Removed is what actually came down or was delisted, confirmed by re-checking the address, not assumed because a filing was sent. Pending is what is still inside a platform's queue or a host's silence. Re-uploaded is the count that keeps everyone honest — copies that came back after removal, caught again.

Every count should hang off addresses. A report that says '14 actions taken' without listing the 14 URLs is unverifiable by design; a report that lists each address, the route filed, the date, and the current status lets you spot-check any line in a minute. Spot-check. Click three removed items at random. A service doing the work welcomes that; the addresses either load a removal page or they don't.

Read the pending column like an adult. Some hosts answer in days; some never answer, and the removal there is the search delisting, which has its own timeline. A good report separates 'waiting on a platform that works its queue' from 'host silent — delisting filed, patrol watching', because those are different situations with different next steps, and lumping them hides the second one.

Watch the trend, not the week. A new client's first reports are usually the biggest — the backlog surfaces all at once. Then found-counts should fall as the visible pile clears, and the report settles into the patrol's rhythm: a few new copies, filed fast, removed, the occasional re-upload. A found-count that stays at zero forever is not a triumph; on the open internet it usually means the scanning is shallow. New copies appearing and dying young is what working protection actually looks like.

Cadence is part of the product. Nullva's Pro, Elite and Agency plans report weekly and Starter monthly — and the report should arrive on that rhythm whether the week was busy or quiet. A quiet-week report is short, not missing: it confirms the scans ran and nothing new surfaced. If your service only writes when there is drama, you have no way to tell a quiet week from a skipped one.

Three questions expose almost everything. Can I see the actual addresses? What happened to last month's pending items — where did each one land? And what did you file this week that you did not file last week, and why? A working service answers all three from its records in minutes. Vague answers are the answer.

If you run your own patrol, keep the same discipline in a simple document: the five counts, the address list, the dates. It takes ten minutes a week once the habit exists, and it turns 'I think the leaks are getting better' into something you actually know. And if you hand the job to us, this is the standard to hold us to — it is the report our clients get, and the one described on our methodology page.