Hi Edo!
The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page
per day. The rest of
the top10 drops quickly down to 5000 hits per day, a reasonable amount. But
the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I do a
rough estimate, it looks like 1.500.000 is the total number of page views,
the number of unique devices must be a lot smaller then.
It does look like this, but if you sum all view counts for the top 993 most
visited articles (
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/nl.wikipedia.org/al…),
it adds up to 1.203.816. Also,
nl.wikipedia.org has more than 1 million
articles, I think the rest of articles not mentioned in the top would raise
that count far above the 1.500.000. We should also consider that the
majority of wikipedia visitors do 1-article-only lookups. So, I
think 1.635.478 of unique devices makes sense.
Cheers
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Edo de Roo <edoderoo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gergo Tisza makes a valid point.
The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page per day. The rest of
the top10 drops quickly down to 5000 hits per day, a reasonable amount.
But the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I do
a rough estimate, it looks like 1.500.000 is the total number of page
views, the number of unique devices must be a lot smaller then.
See
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/nl.wikipedia.org/a…
Edo de Roo
nl-wiki, wikidata
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:50 PM, <analytics-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Send Analytics mailing list submissions to
> analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics
> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> analytics-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> You can reach the person managing the list at
> analytics-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org
>
> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> than "Re: Contents of Analytics digest..."
>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Unique Devices data available on API (Nuria Ruiz)
> 2. Hive & Oozie downtime tomorrow (Andrew Otto)
> 3. Re: Unique Devices data available on API (Gergo Tisza)
> 4. Re: Unique Devices data available on API (Kevin Leduc)
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:17:12 -0700
> From: Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who
> has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics."
> <analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, Wikimedia developers
> <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>,
> wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API
> Message-ID:
> <CAMpYYkGngUfQOu-f6sL1TVTDbDUX_=
> MG9FXEqUV5xmZVZL3nqQ(a)mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Hello!
>
> The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is
> now
> available to be queried programmatically via an API.
>
> This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for English
> Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and
> mobile) is as easy as launching this query:
>
>
>
https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/a…
>
> You can get started by taking a look at our docs:
>
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start
>
> If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you
> need to know is that
> is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below.
>
> Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about
> unique web visitors. In January 2016, however, we decided to stop
> reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the
> methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile usage.
> We
> are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices Dataset
> .
> While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good proxy
> for
> that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique devices
> is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand that
> counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very
> private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any
> cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3].
>
>
> [1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices
> [2] [
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement
> [3]
>
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_uni…
> devices.3F
>