>Surely this can't be accurate though as most other sites on the internet report virtually non-existent usage of IE7 (less than 1% everywhere I've checked). Can someone >double-check this?
This is likely bot traffic with IE7 user-agent. See: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148461

We will hopefully be able to tackle distortion of stats by non-labelled bot traffic in the next year: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138207

Issue for dataset noted here: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/Browser_general#Changes_and_known_problems_since_2016-03-21




On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari@wikimedia.org> wrote:
According to...
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sites-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view
... IE7 accounts for 2.5% of all pageviews in the last month.

According to...
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop-site-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view
... IE7 accounts for 5.1% of all desktop pageviews in the last month.

If that's true, IE7 (which came out 10 years ago) is more popular than all versions of Safari combined. It also means that we need to roll back a whole slew of features in MediaWiki that aren't supported in IE7.

Surely this can't be accurate though as most other sites on the internet report virtually non-existent usage of IE7 (less than 1% everywhere I've checked). Can someone double-check this?

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