- The key, the Google quota and the billing relationship are the operator’s. The site calls Google directly; nothing is proxied through Avakode and we never see the key, which is encrypted at rest with a value from wp-config.php and is never shown back.
- The panel’s status line is the run’s own: nothing started says nothing, an open run says “Queued at HH:MM UTC”, and a finished one repeats exactly the wording the history table uses (completed / partial / failed / timed out, with the counts) so the line and the table can never disagree.
- Results are ordinary rows in the ordinary profile table, so the trend, the regression history, the e-mail and the Telegram / Slack / webhook alerts all treat them like any other measurement — but never compare them against a real visitor’s measurement.
- Lab runs band TBT along with LCP, CLS and TTFB (§11).
- Useful exactly where field data cannot help: a page nobody has visited yet, a staging site, a change made at midnight.