Hi,
One of the longstanding issues with Webstatscollector is that it counts redirects at the HTTP level.
So for example [1]: - Requesting a page with a lower case first letter, - Requesting a page from the desktop site on a mobile device, or - Requesting to www.wikipedia.org (first part is www, not a language) causes two requests to the caches, and webstatscollector counts both, although actually only a single page is shown to the user. Thereby too high numbers get reported.
Since we're about the deploy a fix for webstatscollector tomorrow anyways, and this double counting should not be too hard to fix, let's get it fixed too.
If you see value in counting redirects, please let us know soonish, as I'll try to get the changes into tomorrow's deployment.
Sorry for the short notice, Christian
[1] See the corresponding bug 71790
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71790
for concrete examples.
Hi,
On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:28:56PM +0200, Christian Aistleitner wrote:
If you see value in counting redirects, please let us know soonish, as I'll try to get the changes into tomorrow's deployment.
The changes are ready, but deployment has been postponed to next week :-/
(To keep noise lower, I'll only update the thread at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/analytics/2014-October/002571.html after the deployment.)
Have fun, Christian