Fran, the preview to which you refer, I think that's for the Page Previews
feature (i.e., when a user hovers over a link on desktop Wikipedia) or its
corresponding feature in the the Wikipedia for Android (triggered by
default on link tap) and Wikipedia for iOS (force press) apps, is that
right? Are you saying that browser-based prefetch activity (e.g., with
resource hinting like
https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/ ) is also
tagged the same way?
Chenqi Zhu, I think what you're suggesting is the possibility that browsers
might be issuing HTTP prefetches for Wikimedia-hosted pages and that could
inflate pageviews. I'm not sure, but have you happened to observe user
agents making prefetches when resource hinting (
https://www.w3.org/TR/resource-hints/ ) is absent? I'm not sure how often,
if at all, discovery platforms like search engines are actually placing
resource hints into markup (which is mostly deterministic as far as browser
behavior) for Wikimedia content...nor to what degree there might be
heuristics being used for prefetching independently of any resource hints.
Do you have any data or field observations to help clarify?
Browser settings allude to this sort of behavior (e.g., in Chrome, there's
"Use a prediction service to load pages more quickly", which is described
at
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114836 ), although I think
without digging into browser source code it's a bit hard to know for
certain what's going on "under the hood". We do use preconnect and prefetch
semantics and the like in different contexts (cf.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/G2tr8i0YZii9 ,
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/search/query/.dtx_hqaj3wj , ...there may
be more).
-Adam
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:00 AM Francisco Dans <fdans(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi Chenqi,
You can find out more about what constitutes a pageview in its Metawiki
article:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view#Definition
As you can see, one of the conditions is whether the request being
examined is a preview or not, in which case it is not counted as a page
view. Hope this helps!
Fran
On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 5:30 PM Chenqi Zhu <czhu(a)stern.nyu.edu> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am trying to better understand the pageview data. I have a quick
question. I apologize if the question has been asked or it is so naive.
If the web browser prefetches a Wikipedia page, does it count as one
pageview in the pageview data? By "prefetching", I meant X's Wikipedia
page
shows up in the search results and the browser prefetches/preloads the
search results but I do not click on X's Wikipedia page. If so, the
pageview data seem to over-count the number of visits to X's Wikipedia page.
Thanks in advance for any insight.
Chenqi Zhu
New York University
44 W 4th St., Suite 10-185(B),
New York, NY 10012, U.S.A.
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