Period questions

Veronica • 26✨PCOS warrior✨💪🏻 mama to be 5/18/2024💙☺️

Do you count spotting as your period or no? Why or why not?

Also, what does brownish orange blood mean? I’m on day 10 of my period and When I wiped this morning that’s what i saw and there wasn’t very much. Also didn’t bleed at all last night.