[Release] explore the (parsed) (common) Wikimedia user agents - Analytics

Andrew Gray

6 Mar 6 Mar

1:52 p.m.

New subject: [Release] explore the (parsed) (common) Wikimedia user agents

Hi Oliver, This is really neat, but the absolute user numbers are a bit confusing. Is there any chance it could also display pageviews as an approximate percentage? It's clear that, say, 2.1m Chrome 40 on Windows 7 is a lot more than 517 Chrome 40 on Linux, but because there's no total given it's hard to normalise this and understand what proportion either represents. Secondly, am I right in assuming that the "pageviews" column is *sample* pageviews, so we have a "real" total of approximately 2.1 billion Chrome 40/Windows 7 pageviews? Andrew. On 6 March 2015 at 00:02, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Hey all, A perennial request from WMF engineers/product people, as well as third-party developers, is an idea of what browsers people are using so we know what we have to support on the frontend side of things. With Legal/Analytics signoff and +2ing, I've built an exploratory tool at http://datavis.wmflabs.org/agents/ which allows people to look at the most prominently used user agents on our projects - editors, readers, mobile, desktop, whatever you want, we've got it! (unless you want a pony or something. I can't help with that, I'm afraid.) To answer the most obvious FAQ questions (read: the ones that have already come up ;p): "Will this be run regularly?" Not as of this moment. At least, not by me. This is an ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request. "Who do I go to if I want that to change?" Analytics Engineering has this task on their backlog already. "Can I have it divided up by [country/operating system/what colour socks the users use/etc]?" An ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request; adding additional dimensions/granularity would require additional legal review and further runs. -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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Andrew Gray

7:06 p.m.

New subject: [Release] explore the (parsed) (common) Wikimedia user agents

Awesome! Thinking about this a little more, presumably the 500 cutoff means there's a long, long tail of smaller combinations - so could those percentages be of the absolute total, and could the absolute total + some idea of how much is "other" be listed in the outline? Thanks, Andrew. On 6 March 2015 at 15:20, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Indeed and indeed! Working those into the first changeset :) On 6 March 2015 at 07:52, Andrew Gray <andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk> wrote:

Hi Oliver, This is really neat, but the absolute user numbers are a bit confusing. Is there any chance it could also display pageviews as an approximate percentage? It's clear that, say, 2.1m Chrome 40 on Windows 7 is a lot more than 517 Chrome 40 on Linux, but because there's no total given it's hard to normalise this and understand what proportion either represents. Secondly, am I right in assuming that the "pageviews" column is *sample* pageviews, so we have a "real" total of approximately 2.1 billion Chrome 40/Windows 7 pageviews? Andrew. On 6 March 2015 at 00:02, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hey all, A perennial request from WMF engineers/product people, as well as third-party developers, is an idea of what browsers people are using so we know what we have to support on the frontend side of things. With Legal/Analytics signoff and +2ing, I've built an exploratory tool at http://datavis.wmflabs.org/agents/ which allows people to look at the most prominently used user agents on our projects - editors, readers, mobile, desktop, whatever you want, we've got it! (unless you want a pony or something. I can't help with that, I'm afraid.) To answer the most obvious FAQ questions (read: the ones that have already come up ;p): "Will this be run regularly?" Not as of this moment. At least, not by me. This is an ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request. "Who do I go to if I want that to change?" Analytics Engineering has this task on their backlog already. "Can I have it divided up by [country/operating system/what colour socks the users use/etc]?" An ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request; adding additional dimensions/granularity would require additional legal review and further runs. -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

-- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

-- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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Oliver Keyes

7:52 p.m.

New subject: [Release] explore the (parsed) (common) Wikimedia user agents

As said:

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"Will this be run regularly?" Not as of this moment. At least, not by me. This is an ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request. "Who do I go to if I want that to change?" Analytics Engineering has this task on their backlog already.

On 6 March 2015 at 13:40, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

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Very neat! This pretty much resolves https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T78539 . I join Andrew's request about percents in addition to (or instead of) absolute numbers, and I hope that it will be updated, say, once a month. Thanks! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ 2015-03-06 2:02 GMT+02:00 Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org>rg>:

Hey all, A perennial request from WMF engineers/product people, as well as third-party developers, is an idea of what browsers people are using so we know what we have to support on the frontend side of things. With Legal/Analytics signoff and +2ing, I've built an exploratory tool at http://datavis.wmflabs.org/agents/ which allows people to look at the most prominently used user agents on our projects - editors, readers, mobile, desktop, whatever you want, we've got it! (unless you want a pony or something. I can't help with that, I'm afraid.) To answer the most obvious FAQ questions (read: the ones that have already come up ;p): "Will this be run regularly?" Not as of this moment. At least, not by me. This is an ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request. "Who do I go to if I want that to change?" Analytics Engineering has this task on their backlog already. "Can I have it divided up by [country/operating system/what colour socks the users use/etc]?" An ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request; adding additional dimensions/granularity would require additional legal review and further runs. -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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Timo Tijhof

10 Mar 10 Mar

3:54 a.m.

New subject: [Release] explore the (parsed) (common) Wikimedia user agents

Wow, does Googlebot really represent over 1% of our desktop/reader traffic? Rather interesting compared to that of e.g. WinXP/IE6, which is over 60x smaller at 0.016%. But never mind IE6's percentage, that of Google would seem quite high. — Timo On 6 Mar 2015, at 01:02, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:

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Hey all, A perennial request from WMF engineers/product people, as well as third-party developers, is an idea of what browsers people are using so we know what we have to support on the frontend side of things. With Legal/Analytics signoff and +2ing, I've built an exploratory tool at http://datavis.wmflabs.org/agents/ which allows people to look at the most prominently used user agents on our projects - editors, readers, mobile, desktop, whatever you want, we've got it! (unless you want a pony or something. I can't help with that, I'm afraid.) To answer the most obvious FAQ questions (read: the ones that have already come up ;p): "Will this be run regularly?" Not as of this moment. At least, not by me. This is an ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request. "Who do I go to if I want that to change?" Analytics Engineering has this task on their backlog already. "Can I have it divided up by [country/operating system/what colour socks the users use/etc]?" An ad-hoc report in response to an ad-hoc request; adding additional dimensions/granularity would require additional legal review and further runs. -- Oliver Keyes Research Analyst Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Analytics mailing list Analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

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