Hi all,
We set up some data collection a few weeks back to look at the distribution
of actual screen size, viewport size and media viewer canvas size on
sampled users. This will ultimately be used to come up with a better choice
of thumbnail size buckets for Media Viewer.
I had some spare time and figured I'd try to generate a visualization of
that data, which we haven't analyzed yet.
Here are the results:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Screen_heatmap.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Viewport_heatmap.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Canvas_heatmap.png
(Media Viewer-specific)
I think it shows quite strikingly how screen size really doesn't matter
much compared to the actual available viewport. Hopefully this data will be
useful for other folks too, since I don't believe we tracked that
information before. And given media viewer's traffic, it should be pretty
representative of wikis in general.
The data used to generate those images is all the data we've collected so
far. I haven't looked at differences between wikis, etc. For people with
analytics access, the EL table I dug that data from is
MultimediaViewerDimensions_10014238
Note that this is mostly desktop, since it's very unusual to run Media
Viewer on mobile devices, considering it hasn't been made for it and
themobile site has its own MV-like lightbox.
The code used to generate these is this quick and dirty Processing script I
hacked together:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P39
