Any ideas
about why there is such a big difference between the old and
new numbers?
I guess you missed the banner which explains the main differences among
definitions. I have copy pasted it below.
Please take a look at the new definition here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view
The new definition has significant updates from the legacy one.
<banner>
In the old situation spider/crawler traffic (from search engines) wasn't
filtered (a known issue, we needed hadoop to make this possible).
Those requests made up almost 20% of total page 'views' on Wikipedia, and
even much more on sister projects (details will follow)
Obviously the top table row, with year-over-year changes, doesn't make
sense until the new pageview definition will have been in effect for at
least a year. That feature is now temporarily disabled.
Also, the new data stream does exclude housekeeping traffic (mainly used
for fundraising banners).
As usage grew these so called HideBanner requests became far more
numerous even than actual traffic on smaller Wikimedia projects (not on
Wikipedia).
We will update the reports soon, to make the impact of this 'pollution'
visible, which affected much of 2014 and first four months of 2015.
</banner>
On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:35 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','wiki.pine@gmail.com');>> wrote:
IIRC from the previous numbers showing about 8.5B
pageviews for ENWP
recently (I think that stat was for Sept), it looks like the new number
shows a major drop to 7.5B. Any ideas about why there is such a big
difference between the old and new numbers?
Thanks,
Pine
On Nov 10, 2015 2:02 PM, "Dan Andreescu" <dandreescu(a)wikimedia.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','dandreescu@wikimedia.org');>>
wrote:
\o/
On Tuesday, November 10, 2015, Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)wikimedia.org
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nuria@wikimedia.org');>> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The analytics team wishes to announce that we have finally
> transitioned several of the pageview reports in
stats.wikimedia.org to
> the new pageview definition [1]. This means that we should no longer have
> two conflicting sources of pageview numbers.
>
> While we are not not fully done transitioning pageview reports we feel
> this is an important enough milestone that warrants some communication. BIG
> Thanks to Erik Z. for his work on this project.
>
> Please take a look at a report using the new definition (a banner is
> present when report has been updated)
>
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nuria
>
>
> [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view
>
>
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