For those with NDA access, see also the more detailed investigation at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T157404 (nothing super secret about the topic per se, it's just that some partial IP data was examined in the process, so the task was set to non-public to avoid privacy concerns)
When filing that task half a year ago, I wrote that "At about 0.5% of our total human views currently, they start to matter for overall traffic trend analysis etc." They have since increased and, as can be gleaned from Kaldari's remarks, do indeed affect our global stats markedly now. I have started to remove them in the pageviews stats and trends I'm preparing, will follow up with more detail on Phabricator. On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Nuria Ruiz <nu...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >Surely this can't be accurate though as most other sites on the internet > report virtually non-existent usage of IE7 (less than 1% everywhere I've > checked). Can someone >double-check this? > This is likely bot traffic with IE7 user-agent. See: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148461 > > We will hopefully be able to tackle distortion of stats by non-labelled > bot traffic in the next year: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138207 > > Issue for dataset noted here: https://wikitech.wikimed > ia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/Browser_general#Chan > ges_and_known_problems_since_2016-03-21 > > > > > On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> According to... >> https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit >> es-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view >> ... IE7 accounts for 2.5% of all pageviews in the last month. >> >> According to... >> https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop >> -site-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view >> ... IE7 accounts for 5.1% of all desktop pageviews in the last month. >> >> If that's true, IE7 (which came out 10 years ago) is more popular than >> all versions of Safari combined. It also means that we need to roll back a >> whole slew of features in MediaWiki that aren't supported in IE7. >> >> Surely this can't be accurate though as most other sites on the internet >> report virtually non-existent usage of IE7 (less than 1% everywhere I've >> checked). Can someone double-check this? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Analytics mailing list >> Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > > -- Tilman Bayer Senior Analyst Wikimedia Foundation IRC (Freenode): HaeB
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