Analytics/Wikistats/TrafficReports/Future per report B2

Aug 2015: Wikistats traffic reports have been discontinued due to lack of maintenance.

Please add your signature to those reports you want to see migrated to WMF's new hadoop-based infrastructure. (three tildes, if signed on).

'''Feb 2016: three reports for page views (see 21/22/23 below) have been migrated to WMF's new hadoop infrastructure. No plans exist yet to provide a data feed for page edits.'''

For a general introduction see Analytics/Wikistats/TrafficReports/Future

Note EZ stands for comments by original author Erik Zachte.

Reports on Wikimedia server requests, broken down by browser, operating system, etc, etc
Note: every section header links to the respective report.

1 Breakdown by browser (brand and (sub)version)
Note EZ: quite often used and discussed, also by external parties

See also phabricator:T69053


 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 2) Krinkle (talk)
 * 3) Jane023 (talk) 11:18, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Ne0Freedom (talk) 11:15, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) I don't personally use it, but I see many mailing list threads waste countless person-hours in random guessing which this report fixes, even in its current status. --Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Matma Rex (talk) 10:49, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) This is a very useful report showing actual accesses to a high-volume site -- Imerologul (talk) 08:58, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) Glaisher (talk)
 * 9) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 10) Nicolas Love (talk)
 * 11) Bawolff (talk) 03:33, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 12) Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 13:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 13) Adam Taylor (talk) 18:24, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 14) Mraeryceos (talk) 03:35, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

2 Breakdown by client operating system (brand and (sub)version)
Note EZ: quite often used and discussed, also by external parties


 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 2) Ne0Freedom (talk) 11:13, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Wisdom'sLover (talk)
 * 4) This is a very useful report showing actual accesses to a high-volume site -- Imerologul (talk) 08:58, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) This is a generally useful feature for those of us in the operating system field due to the size of the Wikipedia userbase. -- Christian Schaller
 * 6) Stoo, this stst is useful for me.
 * 7) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 8) Carlos Juan Martín Pérez IMHO, this report is the only non biased data source of OS popularity
 * JK
 * 1) Nicolas Love (talk)
 * 2) Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 13:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) High volume site statistics for detailed OS breakdown (e.g. OpenSuse or Debian as opposed to just 'Linux')
 * 4) Adam Taylor (talk) 18:24, 15 January 2016 (UTC).  As mentioned above, this is arguably one of the most reliable sources for estimating usage share of OSes.  It would be great if this was broken down first by client machine type (desktop vs mobile), and then by OS.  If one is interested in desktop OS share, lumping Android together with desktop Linux confuses the issue.
 * 5) Dlawyer (talk)
 * 6) Mraeryceos (talk) 03:35, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

3 Breakdown of all traffic that Google sends us, directly (crawlers) and indirectly (search results)
Note EZ: has been very useful several times, but not the further breakdown by top level domain


 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 2) Extremely necessary for users and chapters, especially as news abund which focus only on en.wiki data cited out of context, while this report is much more nuanced. --Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) --Perohanych (talk) 20:49, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 5) 3BRBS (talk) 17:01, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

4 Breakdown of requests by mime type
Note EZ: has been very useful several times, but not sure about the further breakdown per wiki


 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)

5 Breakdown of requests by file type and origin
Note EZ: no-one referred to this report in years


 * Keep

6 Breakdown of requests by target wiki
Note EZ: seldom discussed, also glitch: % stands for 'mobile' 


 * Keep
 * 1) Jane023 (talk) 11:18, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) It's the only page which ranks all Wikimedia projects by page views. Quite obscure additional columns and hence hard to use in discussions, but I sometimes used it, especially for the media statistics before Analytics/Data/Mediacounts. --Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

7 Breakdown by request method
Report is already empty since long, see older version.

Note EZ: (built out of curiosity, but never received feedback on this one)


 * Keep
 * Drop
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)

8 Which crawlers access our servers?
Breakdown by host, file types requested, agent string. Disabled (see bug T96372). See example.

Note EZ: nice to have, but in current form impracticable and much too detailed, even disabled


 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)

9 Breakdown by script (and parameters)
Breakdown by type (css, javascript, php), name and parameters

Note EZ: never received feedback on this one


 * Keep
 * Drop
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)

10 Breakdown by skin file
Report is already empty since long, see older version.

Note EZ: never received feedback on this one


 * Keep
 * Drop
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 2) Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 13:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 1) Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 13:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

11 Breakdown by browser/app by site
Note EZ: relatively recent addition for WMF Mobile Team (still in use?)


 * Keep

12 Breakdown by user agent, monthly trend
Note EZ: relatively recent addition for WMF Mobile Team (still in use?)


 * Keep
 * 1) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)

13 Breakdown by browser, monthly trend
Note EZ: relatively recent addition for WMF Mobile Team (still in use?)


 * Keep

Reports on Wikimedia page views/edits, broken down by geography
See this sitemap Each of these comes in two versions: one for page views, one for page edits.

21 Page views/edits by visiting country/region
Note EZ: quite often used and discussed

Feb 2016: Report "Page views by visiting country/region" has been migrated to WMF's new hadoop infrastructure. New monthly and quarterly reports have been generated starting from May 2015. There is no plan yet to provide a similar hadoop feed for page edits.
 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 2) NaBUru38 (talk)
 * MYMMMC
 * 1) Loup Solitaire 81 (talk)
 * 2) Pitthée (talk)
 * 3) Chwede86 (talk)
 * 4) --Perohanych (talk) 20:50, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 6) Jagwar (talk) 22:47, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 13:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) 3BRBS (talk) 17:02, 14 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 9) uni3993 (talk) 17:02, 19 January 2016 (UTC)

22 Breakdown of page views/edits by visiting country/region, by visited wiki
Note EZ: often used and discussed

Feb 2016: Report "Breakdown of page views by visiting country/region" has been migrated to WMF's new hadoop infrastructure. There is no plan yet to provide a similar hadoop feed for page edits.
 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 2) NaBUru38 (talk)
 * 3) Jane023 (talk) 16:09, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Strainu (talk) 07:46, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * MYMMMC
 * 1) Loup Solitaire 81 (talk)
 * 2) The per-country statistics are very useful when considering any activity in a certain area, to give people a very basic idea of the distribution of visits. I don't see real deficiencies in the current report, as only the order of magnitude maters and is displayed. It's also useful to monitor trends, e.g. whether Hindi's share grows over English in India, but that's more hazardous and happens less frequently.
 * 3) Pitthée (talk)
 * 4) Chwede86 (talk)
 * 5) --Perohanych (talk) 20:51, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 7) 3BRBS (talk) 17:02, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

23 Breakdown of page views/edits by visited wiki, by visiting country/region
Note EZ: often used and discussed

Feb 2016: Report "Breakdown of page views by visited wiki, by visiting country/region" has been migrated to WMF's new hadoop infrastructure. There is no plan yet to provide a similar hadoop feed for page edits.
 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk)
 * 2) NaBUru38 (talk)
 * 3) Jane023 (talk) 16:10, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Loup Solitaire 81 (talk)
 * 5) Similarly to the previous report, but useful for the community of each wiki. Should be extended to all projects, not just Wikipedia. Very important in that it's the only piece of statistics we have on the project portal(s), www.wikipedia.org. --Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 6) Pitthée (talk)
 * 7) Chwede86 (talk)
 * 8) --Perohanych (talk) 20:52, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 10) Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 13:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 11) 3BRBS (talk) 17:03, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

24 Quarterly trends of page views/edits broken down by visiting country/region, by visited wiki
Note EZ: currently disabled as 1:1000 sampled log made results shaky for this level of detail


 * Keep
 * 1) Hell yeah. report 22 is of little use without this historic data.--Strainu (talk) 07:49, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) Loup Solitaire 81 (talk)
 * 3) Curious and simplifies the browsing of previous reports, but so far I think I never used it in decisions or anything. --Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) Pitthée (talk)
 * 5) Chwede86 (talk)
 * 6) --Perohanych (talk) 20:51, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 7) Dmitrij D. Czarkoff (talk) 13:10, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * 8) 3BRBS (talk) 17:05, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

25 Breakdown of page views by visiting country/region and browser
Note EZ: relatively recent addition for WMF Mobile Team (still in use?)


 * Keep
 * 1) Erik Zachte (WMF) (talk) 07:58, 29 July 2015 (UTC) (useful for dept. Readers)
 * 2) I had not used it before but it's rather pretty. Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) --Perohanych (talk) 20:51, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 5) 3BRBS (talk) 17:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

26 Breakdown of page views by visiting country/region and device/site
Note EZ: relatively recent addition for WMF Mobile Team (still in use?)


 * Keep
 * 1) Mr.Aifam
 * 2) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)
 * 3) 3BRBS (talk) 17:04, 14 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Unsure
 * 1) Nice trivia but I nver used it so far. I think it would be more useful if the numbers for each device/agent were expressed in percentage and the rows were sortable by any column. that would allow to quickly identify whether an issue affecting a certain user agent has a disproportionate effect in some region.  --Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)

27 Breakdown of page views by visiting country/region and operating system
Note EZ: relatively recent addition for WMF Mobile Team (still in use?)


 * Keep
 * 1) JCuriel (WMF) (talk)


 * Unsure
 * 1) Very nice trivia for FLOSS boasting (Linux has more than half the visits of Windows in Italy and Japan, let's prepare for beating Windows!), but I don't know about reliability and I can't imagine a practical usefulness right now. Percentages, as above, may be more useful for some edge cases like deciding in what platform to make a specialised app for a certain country. --Nemo 09:45, 21 August 2015 (UTC)