> in Safari and Chrome with the default settings, there is a native browser
feature that, when searching through the address bar (Google powered) by
default silently starts loading the url of >the top result shown below the
address bar.
Ah, I see, you mean searches happening "outside" the
Yes, I checked Chrome/Mozilla as well and saw no evidence of prefetching
for Wikipedia pages.
Related point: it does appear that for media counts, that prefetching by
the Media Viewer might change the counts:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/Mediacounts#Corner_cases
I just quickly tried this out live looking for a prefetch webrequest from
my chrome browser for a enwiki, enwiktionary and wikidata page but no
prefetching happened.
After a quick search I found
https://www.technipages.com/google-chrome-prefetch and confirmed that the
prefetch setting is ON in my
Ugh, this wasn't meant to go on-list (obviously). Sorry!
-- Timo
On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 at 18:55, Timo Tijhof wrote:
> Hi Nuria,
>
> As I understand it, in Safari and Chrome with the default settings, there
> is a native browser feature that, when searching through the address bar
> (Google
Hi Nuria,
As I understand it, in Safari and Chrome with the default settings, there
is a native browser feature that, when searching through the address bar
(Google powered) by default silently starts loading the url of the top
result shown below the address bar. Maybe there's a way we opted out,
> I think that's for the Page Previews feature (i.e., when a user hovers
over a link on desktop Wikipedia) or
> its corresponding feature in the the Wikipedia for Android (triggered by
default on link tap)
The code that Fran pointed to only discounts "previews" by Android app as
we stablished that
Fran, the preview to which you refer, I think that's for the Page Previews
feature (i.e., when a user hovers over a link on desktop Wikipedia) or its
corresponding feature in the the Wikipedia for Android (triggered by
default on link tap) and Wikipedia for iOS (force press) apps, is that
right?
Hi everyone,
I am trying to better understand the pageview data. I have a quick
question. I apologize if the question has been asked or it is so naive.
If the web browser prefetches a Wikipedia page, does it count as one
pageview in the pageview data? By "prefetching", I meant X's Wikipedia page
