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Re-define what constitutes a mobile pageview
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I think it will be worth to step back and take some time to define what constitutes a mobile pageview

The current pageview definition for mobile apps is quite imperfect:

  • it is not maintained by the apps teams which are the ones that are aware of changes that might affect the definition
  • it is not tied to user behaviour. With the recent changes in the apps pageviews "seem" to have decreased on 30% but that probably does not reflect the reality of user engagement with the app.
  • it lacks rigor as rather that counting as pageviews known user actions flags as "pageviews" pure HTTP requests and in some instances this has the effect that preloads not seen by a user might be counted as pageviews

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• Nuria created this task.Jul 6 2020, 11:56 PM
• Nuria mentioned this in T256514: PageviewDefinition should detect /api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html requests as pageviews.
LGoto moved this task from Triage to Epics on the Product-Analytics board.Jul 7 2020, 5:12 PM
LGoto moved this task from Epics to Needs Investigation on the Product-Analytics board.
LGoto assigned this task to SNowick_WMF.Jul 14 2020, 5:16 PM
LGoto added a project: Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated.
LGoto moved this task from Needs triage to Tracking on the Product-Infrastructure-Team-Backlog-Deprecated board.
Milimetric edited projects, added Analytics-Radar; removed Analytics.Jul 20 2020, 3:55 PM
kzimmerman renamed this task from Definition of what constitutes a mobile pageview to Re-define what constitutes a mobile pageview .Aug 4 2020, 5:20 PM
LGoto triaged this task as Medium priority.Aug 4 2020, 5:20 PM
LGoto moved this task from Needs Investigation to Backlog on the Product-Analytics board.
LGoto removed a parent task: T256508: API pageview counts for 'Mobile app' are incorrect since switch to mobile-html .Sep 21 2020, 4:39 PM
LGoto moved this task from Backlog to Needs Investigation on the Product-Analytics board.
SNowick_WMF moved this task from Needs Investigation to Backlog on the Product-Analytics board.Sep 29 2020, 5:20 PM
SNowick_WMF closed this task as Resolved.May 24 2021, 4:30 PM

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257860

PageviewDefinition to only include /api/rest_v1/page/mobile-html requests with X-Analytics: pageview=1 in pageviews

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