The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page per day. The rest of

But the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I do

Hi Edo! 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 &lt;edoderoo(a)gmail.com&gt; 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, &lt;analytics-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; > 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 &lt;nuria(a)wikimedia.org&gt; >> To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who >> has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics." >> &lt;analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;rg>, Wikimedia developers >> &lt;wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt;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&gt; >> 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 >>