Nuria, thanks for the quick response!
*Birgit
2016-10-13 19:07 GMT+02:00 Nuria Ruiz nuria@wikimedia.org:
Birgit:
I am cc-ing analytics@ our public e-mail list where questions like this one get asked (and archived).
As far as I know, page views are counted every time someone views a page,
and if someone reloads a page several time, each time would be counted as 1
page view. Is that correct?> I wonder if you could explain the reasoning behind that a bit
Yes, we do not count "distict" pageviews by a user, but pageviews overall. So if look at barak obama pages 10 times one day those are 10 pageviews.
If we would want to be able to know if a page got just reloaded by the
same person, we would need to have a unique ID for each user, and this would have to >be browser connected. I'm guessing that this would be a strong privacy issue. Correct. Event with unique IDs we could never identify users, just devices. As uniqueIDs are really cookies on your browser.
Thanks,
nuria
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Birgit Müller < birgit.mueller@wikimedia.de> wrote:
Hi Nuria,
we shortly met when you had your team offsite in Berlin :-)
We're currently running a feedback loop on the PageView Analysis tool by MusicAnimal/Community Tech, and in that context a question appeared:
As far as I know, page views are counted every time someone views a page, and if someone reloads a page several time, each time would be counted as 1 page view. Is that correct?
I wonder if you could explain the reasoning behind that a bit -
my first guess was:
If we would want to be able to know if a page got just reloaded by the same person, we would need to have a unique ID for each user, and this would have to be browser connected. I'm guessing that this would be a strong privacy issue.
From the technical perspective, I could imagine that this would also be very difficult.
Am I right, or what are the exact reasons behind that?
Looking forward to your answer, and I hope you're doing well!
Best, Birgit
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