On 13 August 2015 at 10:32, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel itzik@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
http://www.businessinsider.in/Wikipedia-suddenly-lost-a-massive-amount-of-tr...
From what I see in the ReportCard (http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/), there is decrease, but far less than mentioned on this article
Mobile + desktop traffic per reportcard:
May - 20.42b Jun - 17.93b Jul - 17.89b
Per similarweb:
May: 2.7 billion July: 2.4 billion
Assuming the ratio of visits:pageviews is about constant (which seems a reasonable assumption) then our drop shows about the same - July is 13.5% down on May in our data, and 11% in his. Our enwiki traffic matches even more closely - it's down 11% as well, 9.41b down to 8.36b.
The decline, interestingly, appears to be less marked in enwiki than in many other projects - frwp is down 22.5% over the same period, and eswp 26% (!).
However, a look at reportcard suggests this is not particularly unusual - we had an overall 13% drop June-September 2013, for example, which recovered again, and an 11% spike from June-September 2014. (tentative conclusion, summers are weird).