It would be useful for Analytics if we include the HTTP Referer header when requesting article content. When navigating to another article from a link, this can simply be the URL of the previous page that the user was browsing.
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Change 431682 had a related patch set uploaded (by Cooltey; owner: Cooltey):
[apps/android/wikipedia@master] Include HTTP Referer header when navigating through internal links
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Great! Adding Analytics so that the Analytics Engineering team is aware and can double-check that this works for ingestion in the referer field of the webrequest table.
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Change 436918 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dbrant; owner: Dbrant):
[apps/android/wikipedia@master] Follow-up: Refine and extend our support for the Referer header.
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Change 431682 merged by jenkins-bot:
[apps/android/wikipedia@master] Include HTTP Referer header when navigating through internal links
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Change 436918 merged by jenkins-bot:
[apps/android/wikipedia@master] Follow-up: Refine and extend our support for the Referer header.
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Great, thanks! From a quick look at the data, this seems to have rolled out around June 21?
SELECT year, month, day, CONCAT(year,'-',LPAD(month,2,'0'),'-',LPAD(day,2,'0')) AS date, referer_class, SUM(view_count) AS views FROM wmf.pageview_hourly WHERE year = 2018 AND month =6 AND access_method = 'mobile app' AND user_agent_map['os_family'] = 'Android' AND agent_type = 'user' GROUP BY year, month, day, referer_class ORDER BY year, month, day, referer_class LIMIT 10000; year month day date referer_class views 2018 6 1 2018-06-01 internal 6 2018 6 1 2018-06-01 none 4906463 2018 6 2 2018-06-02 internal 29 2018 6 2 2018-06-02 none 5558288 2018 6 3 2018-06-03 internal 33 2018 6 3 2018-06-03 none 6115054 2018 6 4 2018-06-04 external (search engine) 1 2018 6 4 2018-06-04 internal 6 2018 6 4 2018-06-04 none 5138083 2018 6 5 2018-06-05 internal 12 2018 6 5 2018-06-05 none 4994861 2018 6 6 2018-06-06 internal 35 2018 6 6 2018-06-06 none 4930961 2018 6 7 2018-06-07 external (search engine) 2 2018 6 7 2018-06-07 internal 54 2018 6 7 2018-06-07 none 4867617 2018 6 8 2018-06-08 internal 38 2018 6 8 2018-06-08 none 4966747 2018 6 9 2018-06-09 internal 31 2018 6 9 2018-06-09 none 5544654 2018 6 10 2018-06-10 internal 45 2018 6 10 2018-06-10 none 6167614 2018 6 11 2018-06-11 external (search engine) 2 2018 6 11 2018-06-11 internal 25 2018 6 11 2018-06-11 none 5246565 2018 6 12 2018-06-12 internal 66 2018 6 12 2018-06-12 none 5020015 2018 6 13 2018-06-13 external (search engine) 1 2018 6 13 2018-06-13 internal 37 2018 6 13 2018-06-13 none 4916525 2018 6 14 2018-06-14 external (search engine) 1 2018 6 14 2018-06-14 internal 55 2018 6 14 2018-06-14 none 4889998 2018 6 15 2018-06-15 internal 31 2018 6 15 2018-06-15 none 4869373 2018 6 16 2018-06-16 external (search engine) 1 2018 6 16 2018-06-16 internal 34 2018 6 16 2018-06-16 none 5554345 2018 6 17 2018-06-17 external (search engine) 1 2018 6 17 2018-06-17 internal 33 2018 6 17 2018-06-17 none 6165212 2018 6 18 2018-06-18 internal 10 2018 6 18 2018-06-18 none 5178965 2018 6 19 2018-06-19 internal 30 2018 6 19 2018-06-19 none 5022436 2018 6 20 2018-06-20 internal 48 2018 6 20 2018-06-20 none 4862532 2018 6 21 2018-06-21 external 5 2018 6 21 2018-06-21 external (search engine) 280 2018 6 21 2018-06-21 internal 469 2018 6 21 2018-06-21 none 4854108 2018 6 22 2018-06-22 external 95 2018 6 22 2018-06-22 external (search engine) 14098 2018 6 22 2018-06-22 internal 19185 2018 6 22 2018-06-22 none 4913261 2018 6 22 2018-06-22 unknown 16 2018 6 23 2018-06-23 external 206 2018 6 23 2018-06-23 external (search engine) 25981 2018 6 23 2018-06-23 internal 36683 2018 6 23 2018-06-23 none 5453626 2018 6 23 2018-06-23 unknown 34 2018 6 24 2018-06-24 external 321 2018 6 24 2018-06-24 external (search engine) 30286 2018 6 24 2018-06-24 internal 46635 2018 6 24 2018-06-24 none 6078344 2018 6 24 2018-06-24 unknown 45 2018 6 25 2018-06-25 external 330 2018 6 25 2018-06-25 external (search engine) 27446 2018 6 25 2018-06-25 internal 43016 2018 6 25 2018-06-25 none 4989313 2018 6 25 2018-06-25 unknown 22 2018 6 26 2018-06-26 external 2882 2018 6 26 2018-06-26 external (search engine) 369914 2018 6 26 2018-06-26 internal 497632 2018 6 26 2018-06-26 none 4048209 2018 6 26 2018-06-26 unknown 310 2018 6 27 2018-06-27 external 5170 2018 6 27 2018-06-27 external (search engine) 657959 2018 6 27 2018-06-27 internal 857853 2018 6 27 2018-06-27 none 3303737 2018 6 27 2018-06-27 unknown 454 2018 6 28 2018-06-28 external 5647 2018 6 28 2018-06-28 external (search engine) 731858 2018 6 28 2018-06-28 internal 963577 2018 6 28 2018-06-28 none 3179193 2018 6 28 2018-06-28 unknown 477 2018 6 29 2018-06-29 external 3589 2018 6 29 2018-06-29 external (search engine) 423151 2018 6 29 2018-06-29 internal 575169 2018 6 29 2018-06-29 none 1668626 2018 6 29 2018-06-29 unknown 324 91 rows selected (158.475 seconds)