Analytics/Pageviews/Glossary

The goal of this document is to establish a clear terminology when talking about Pageviews, Webrequest and traffic. This is a DRAFT.

Web Requests
Web Requests are "all requests", without distinguishing internal/external sources. Each webrequest it is going to be 1 log line. Note that a pageview can be made of several webrequests.

Mobile site webrequests
Request to the mobile version of any wiki by any device (mobile or not).

Desktop site webrequests
Request to the desktop version of any wiki by any device (tablet views to the desktop site will be counted here)

Mobile device webrequests or Apps Requests?
Requests from mobile devices that are not in the prior two categories. This would include traffic from wikipedia apps and any third party mobile app that uses our api. (what about non mobile users of the API? Should we have API requests?)

Pageviews
Are hard to define

Mobile site pageviews
Pageviews on the mobile version of any wiki by any device (mobile or not).

Desktop site pageviews
Pageviews on the desktop version of any wiki by any device (tablet pageviews to the desktop site will be counted here)

Traffic
Traffic is a generic term that pertains the amount of http traffic we serve. Note that traffic could increase and pageviews decrease at the same time. This is not necessarily an indication of us dropping users but could for example indicate that we are more "efficient" at search thus users find what they need faster.