Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-29 Thread Brandon Black
Re: the header name: Keep in mind this header does get sent back to clients as a response header as well. It's probably not a great practice to be using a generic-sounding header name like Last there and waiting to find out what it conflicts with now or in the future (although I'll note that the

Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-29 Thread Dan Andreescu
Thanks Brandon, that works for me. The cookie has been great btw, we're learning great stuff. On Wednesday, April 29, 2015, Brandon Black bbl...@wikimedia.org wrote: Re: the header name: Keep in mind this header does get sent back to clients as a response header as well. It's probably not

Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-29 Thread Toby Negrin
Yes - thanks Brandon for the detailed explanation. Not urgent but I'd love to see a list of the low hanging fruit for where our pages are inefficient. On Apr 29, 2015, at 07:55, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: Thanks Brandon, that works for me. The cookie has been great btw,

Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-28 Thread Oliver Keyes
Varnish doesn't use ISO dates by default? :( On 27 April 2015 at 19:50, Dan Andreescu dandree...@wikimedia.org wrote: Gonna stop this ISO date fancy bandwagon right here :) We could do it with a bunch of VCL code but that affects performance of the site and we'd rather take the hit in

Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-27 Thread Marcel Ruiz Forns
+1 'last' ___ Analytics mailing list Analytics@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-27 Thread Oliver Keyes
+1 for ISO dates. They're also more parsable by researchers. On 27 April 2015 at 18:57, Dario Taraborelli dtarabore...@wikimedia.org wrote: I also noticed the cookie stores a string with a 3-letter month (27-Apr-2015), any reason not to use a shorter ISO date instead (2015-04-27)? On Apr 27,

Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-27 Thread Dan Andreescu
Gonna stop this ISO date fancy bandwagon right here :) We could do it with a bunch of VCL code but that affects performance of the site and we'd rather take the hit in analytics. We could look into making a UDF that deals with this and other common date code we'd want to DRY. On Mon, Apr 27,

Re: [Analytics] [Technical] WMF-Last-Access

2015-04-27 Thread Dario Taraborelli
I also noticed the cookie stores a string with a 3-letter month (27-Apr-2015), any reason not to use a shorter ISO date instead (2015-04-27)? On Apr 27, 2015, at 3:00 PM, Marcel Ruiz Forns mfo...@wikimedia.org wrote: +1 'last' ___ Analytics