Hi Nemo - I followed up with Fundraising on this. I'll relay their reply to the list or they will answer directly.
-Toby
On Jun 5, 2014, at 2:31 AM, "Federico Leva (Nemo)" nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Is anyone able to mention a single concrete use made of the hits to Special:BannerRandom and Special:RecordImpression on Meta, other than recording 400 million fake visits to the site each day? http://stats.grok.se/meta.m/latest90/Special:RecordImpression
It seems fundraising is not tracking how many banners/notices are loaded/displayed (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2012/Report), so I'd assume they're not used for any analysis.
Nemo
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