do not remember the exact date, but a couple of months ago the way for pageviews counting was changed, using cookies, affecting the mobile web views. This can be the cause. Igal (User IKhitron)
mmmm... not sure what you are referring to, can you be more specific? We have not changed the way we measure pageviews for 2 years
There are improvements/fixes continously done to the system and those get documented here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view#Change_log
FYI, we have opened a ticket for this issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T170845
Without looking at it in detail there are many possible causes: removal of "bad" pageviews (like requests for banners) or drop of traffic due to having less bots.
On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Strainu strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
2017-07-15 14:34 GMT+03:00 יגאל חיטרון khitron@gmail.com:
Hello, Strainu.
- Try in place of "all-access" use different platforms. You'll see, as I
expected reading your letter, that the effect you recognized appears in "mobile-web" mostly. 2. I do not remember the exact date, but a couple of months ago the way
for
pageviews counting was changed, using cookies, affecting the mobile web views. This can be the cause. Igal (User IKhitron)
Thank you Igal, that must be the reason, I'll look for the change announcement just to understand what it means exactly.
Strainu
On Jul 15, 2017 13:47, "Strainu" strainu10@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Starting from an unrelated discussion on meta, I noticed a significant drop in main page views for several wikis starting from April this year. Is there anything we (or Google) did at that time to justify this drop?
ro.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=ro. wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016- 01&end=2017-06&pages=Pagina_principal%C4%83
hu.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=hu. wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016- 01&end=2017-06&pages=Kezd%C5%91lap
fr.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=fr. wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016- 01&end=2017-06&pages=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Accueil_principal
de.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=de. wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016- 01&end=2017-06&pages=Wikipedia:Hauptseite
en.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=en. wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&start=2016- 01&end=2017-06&pages=Main_Page (slightly different pattern)
The same cannot be said for other projects, for instance uk.wiki: http://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/?project=uk.
wikipedia.org&platform=all-
access&agent=user&start=2016-01&end=2017-06&pages=%D0%93% D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1% 80%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0
Thanks, Strainu
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