Thanks for the explanations Marcel, very useful to know.
I also learned not long ago that our metrics for Opera Mini and UC browser
are not representative of the real traffic those browsers drive because
they server render cached versions of our sites on their own servers which
they serve directly to the browsers, and they don't share their analytics.
So that 2.4% may turn out to be a much bigger percentage. But the
data/analytics are kept within Opera and UC browser and we don't know about
them.
It would be great if we could get more real data from those companies about
the amount of users on those devices in our sites, for prioritizing
accordingly support/bugs.
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 7:06 PM Marcel Ruiz Forns <mforns(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi Joaquin :]
In all WMF's "browser reports", the slice classified as "Other"
can mean 1
of 2 things:
*1) Ua-parser <https://github.com/wikimedia/analytics-ua-parser>
classifies
those requests as "Other".*
In this case, the requests come with a UA that is not recognized by
ua-parser. Probably they are, as you suggest, crawlers, bots or other kinds
of uncommon traffic. This should represent the smaller part of the whole
"Other" slice.
*2) The anonymization algorithm is sanitizing those requests setting them
to "Other".*
Browser stats data is privacy-sensitive, and we can not store it raw. There
is an algorithm that sanitizes all request groups that are too uncommon,
like "Opera 43 on Windows Phone", because they are so specific that they
could be used to re-identify a user. Each one of those groups is really
small, but all sanitized groups together make up to ~10% of the traffic.
We Analytics want to dedicate some time to this hopefully next quarter, to
reduce the percentage of that slice without loosing privacy:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T131127
*Also*, I think the term "Other" is very confusing here, because it
indicates that that big 8.8% slice is neither Safari nor Chrome nor Android
nor Opera etc. But, in fact, this 8.8% includes all those browsers, it is
made of all those browsers. In my opinion those requests should be labelled
"Unknown" or "Sanitized" instead.
Cheers!
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Joaquin Oltra Hernandez <
jhernandez(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Thanks for sharing. This is very useful
information in so many ways.
For contrast, for awareness, here is some info about the mobile site
<https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#mobile
-site-by-browser>,
which looks pretty different to desktop (last month's data):
- Safari iOS is ~40.1%
- Mobile Safari (38%)
- iOS Chrome (safari based) (2.1%)
- Chrome is 43.7%
- Chrome Mobile is 42%
- Chrome is 1.7%
- Android Browser is 2.5%, with v4 being 1.9% of it
- Opera mini is 1.3%
- UC browser is 1.1%
Nuria, do you know what is the 8.8% classified as "other"? Crawler bots?
Some highlights from the last year:
- Chrome + Safari are ~84%
- Chrome mobile surpassed Safari mobile and has kept growing, more
slowly in the last months.
- Safari mobile usage seems pretty stable and most users are on v10
- The Android browser has been steadily decreasing usage, and most of
it
is now on the v4 version, which means the old
Android 2 browsers are
less
of a worry
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 8:33 PM Nuria Ruiz <nuria(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hello:
Please take a look at the new browser report with more detailed desktop
site data (all wikimedia projects agreggated):
https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop -site-by-browser
Some highlights:
* Data is very stable over the last year
* Chrome in the lead with 45% of traffic, closely followed by IE (18%)
and
FF (13%)
* The bulk of IE traffic is IE11 and IE7
* Edge shows up with 4% slowly catching up to Safari (5%)
* This data is still subject to fluctuations due to bot traffic not
identified as such. We will be working on this next year.
Thanks,
Nuria
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