The latest versions of both Android (prod 2020-05-18) and iOS (prod 2020-06-05) mobile apps are using /page/mobile-html to retrieve pages as HTML, those requests should be categorized as pageviews.
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Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
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Resolved | None | T256508 API pageview counts for 'Mobile app' are incorrect since switch to mobile-html | |||
Declined | kzimmerman | T256516 Re-process webrequests from 2020-05-18 so that page views from latest Wikipedia app releases are counted | |||
Resolved | JAllemandou | T256515 New app pageview definition needs to be deployed | |||
Resolved | mpopov | T256514 PageviewDefinition should detect /api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html requests as pageviews |
Event Timeline
Change 608100 had a related patch set uploaded (by Bearloga; owner: Bearloga):
[analytics/refinery/source@master] Label mobile-html endpoint requests as app pageviews
Change 608100 merged by jenkins-bot:
[analytics/refinery/source@master] Label mobile-html endpoint requests as app pageviews
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/analytics/refinery/source/ /608100
Change 608447 had a related patch set uploaded (by Joal; owner: Joal):
[analytics/refinery@master] Update webrequest hive jar version for pageview-def
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/analytics/refinery/ /608447
Change 608447 merged by Ottomata:
[analytics/refinery@master] Update webrequest hive jar version for pageview-def
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/analytics/refinery/ /608447
While these changes are in it is worth mentioning that the velocity at which the requests are being fired from the app indicates that some of the requests are not likely to be pageviews. I think it will be worth stepping back and taking the time to define what constitutes a mobile pageview.