Hi,
As promised, I would come back with an explatation regarding the pageview
drop for https traffic. As mentioned before, we turned off the https/ip6
webrequest logging stream to webstatscollector back in March because we
inaccurately concluded that we were double counting those pageviews. But in
fact, by switching of that stream, we stopped counting of all https/ip6
traffic. Our apologies for this mistake.
We took the following steps to correct the situation:
1) As of May 14, 18:44 we re-enabled the https/ip6 stream to
webstatscollector (see
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Server_admin_log).
Within the next hour or two, the pageview counts for articles that Google
has indexed using the https protocol, should rebound to similar levels as
they were before we switched off this stream.
2) One of the reasons we switched of this stream, was that the https/ip6
stream has a non-functional implementation of adding sequence numbers.
Because these sequence numbers are off, our packetloss monitoring is
incorrect. We fixed this situation by submitting patchset:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/63220/
Please let me know if there are still lower than expected pageview counts
in a couple of hours from now.
Best,
Diederik
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Over the last month or two, page view stats on
articles that Google links
to via https have been dropping by 60 to 75%.
*http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Schizophrenia
*http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Cancer
*http://stats.grok.se/en/latest90/Depression_%28mood%29
Diederik said on VPT a month ago that this was partly due to us no longer
double-counting page requests. Somebody pointed out that the drop has been
far more than can be attributed to that cause.
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_110…
Are you certain that none of this reflects an actual drop in the number of
people visiting our pages?
This question has been raised at:
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29/Arc…
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:VPT#Page_view_stats_declining_from_2…
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eloquence#View_stats_crashing_on_som…
*User_talk:West.andrew.g#Page_view_stats_crashing_on_some.2C_but_not_all.2C_articles
*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Jimbo_Wales#Page_view_stats_crashing…
Kind regards
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