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/al...
Edo de Roo nl-wiki, wikidata
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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:17:12 -0700 From: Nuria Ruiz nuria@wikimedia.org To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." analytics@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API Message-ID: <CAMpYYkGngUfQOu-f6sL1TVTDbDUX_= MG9FXEqUV5xmZVZL3nqQ@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/al...
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_uniq... devices.3F
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/all...), 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@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/al...
Edo de Roo nl-wiki, wikidata
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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/al...
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_uniq... devices.3F
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. Not sure where do your numbers come from but the number of pageviews on a random day of April for nl.wikipedia (adding desktop and mobile across the world) is about 5 million, discounting bots. No need to estimate, as we count every one of them.
Here are some visuals: https://vital-signs-test.wmflabs.org/#projects=nlwiki/metrics=Pageviews
Maybe we are looking at a different project? I was searching for "dutch wikipedia"
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns mforns@wikimedia.org wrote:
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/all...), 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@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/al...
Edo de Roo nl-wiki, wikidata
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- Re: Unique Devices data available on API (Gergo Tisza)
- Re: Unique Devices data available on API (Kevin Leduc)
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 12:17:12 -0700 From: Nuria Ruiz nuria@wikimedia.org To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." analytics@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Analytics] Unique Devices data available on API Message-ID: <CAMpYYkGngUfQOu-f6sL1TVTDbDUX_= MG9FXEqUV5xmZVZL3nqQ@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/al...
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_uniq... devices.3F