In general, we struggle with these external sources of information. (And this extends to the industry in general). The Research team expended a lot of energy to correct the way another service interpreted our traffic and I believe this feedback was not incorporated.

We are public with our page views and the Analytics team and Erik have now updated wikistats so I am reasonable comfortable in being able to assess month to month changes.

-Toby

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:

Dan Andreescu, 18/11/2015 22:32:

But that was explained to me as "we started filtering spiders better".
So I don't think that would affect Alexa's numbers but maybe it's a bad
coincidence that around the same time something else happened that
dropped the numbers. And the convolution made us all miss it.

Or maybe the Alexa stats contained the same filtering error and fixed it at the same time as us! Sounds unlikely.

Nemo

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