On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Arthur Richards arichards@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Arthur Richards <arichards@wikimedia.org
wrote:
- How could this work for the first pageview request (eg a user clicking
a
link from Google or even just browsing to http://en.wikipedia.org)?
I think mainly we need the tracking on the API requests... that's all JavaScript-initiated, and all hidden from the user. The main problem with adding parameters would be for caching .... but none of the API hits are currently cacheable so that's not an immediate issue perhaps.
We also need to be able to differentiate between alpha/beta/stable versions of the mobile site, without having to parse the cookie header (I believe as a result of performance constraints around this? I think the analytics team had looked into this previously).
Yeah that's.... probably not possible if you want to track that for initial page views. Cookie's the only thing guaranteed to have the data available, and we have no way to inject a header into mobile web browsers except for the XHR hits to the API.
-- brion