Hi Chenqi, You can find out more about what constitutes a pageview in its Metawiki article:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view#Definition As you can see, one of the conditions is whether the request being examined is a preview or not, in which case it is not counted as a page view. Hope this helps! Fran On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 5:30 PM Chenqi Zhu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > shows up in the search results and the browser prefetches/preloads the > search results but I do not click on X's Wikipedia page. If so, the > pageview data seem to over-count the number of visits to X's Wikipedia page. > > Thanks in advance for any insight. > > > Chenqi Zhu > New York University > 44 W 4th St., Suite 10-185(B), > New York, NY 10012, U.S.A. > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics > -- *Francisco Dans* Software Engineer, Analytics Team Wikimedia Foundation
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