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IE11 User and Traffic Analysis update 2023
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Description

Goal

This task is to revisit reports from MediaWiki policy on IE11 and T303325 that were made in 2021 and 2022 around who is using IE11, and what countries they are from. With IE11 reaching end of life on June 15, 2022, we should revisit its prevalence among WMF users and consider moving IE11 to unknown support.

With the goal of removing Internet Explorer dedicated support completely from basic browsers in next couple of weeks, we'd like to specifically know if there are country outliers, which we would need to have special handling or outreach for?

Questions to resolve
  • Percentage of page views by IE11
  • Percentage of page views by IE11 in top outlier countries (Pakistan, Iran, South Korea, Japan)

Is there any country where the percentage is above 0.1% of total views?

Related Supersets

Monthly page views IE and Edge major versions
https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/explore/?form_data_key=2djNHM86biBkzefD6Dj7olApss7Ae7DEWNxO9nd9UtZN--6xvq0g5UqXQrGVwQ-G&slice_id=1980&preselect_filters=%7B%22248%22%3A+%7B%22agent_type%22%3A+%22%22%7D%2C+%22809%22%3A+%7B%22agent_type%22%3A+%22%22%7D%7D

  • Monthly page views totals**

https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/explore/?form_data_key=_1oQSlwd9A_RPuRK8ljsyjgizbM2nm9-v5B70DvydxZ-KQDlfOwjQg0KXuZM5UCa&slice_id=1980&preselect_filters=%7B%22248%22%3A+%7B%22agent_type%22%3A+%22%22%7D%2C+%22809%22%3A+%7B%22agent_type%22%3A+%22%22%7D%7D

Event Timeline

kzimmerman subscribed.

@Volker_E After discussing this with the team, I suggest coming in to office hours to help you get the data needed from Superset. I explored the data and put together this dashboard - https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/dashboard/403/ - so perhaps that meets your needs? The first chart shows the proportion of pageviews from IE11 out of all pageviews - and has conditional formatting to flag where that proportion is above 0.1%

The small variance between Superset data and webrequest data should not affect this analysis. The larger concern is that undetected bot traffic will show up in our user pageview data, but unfortunately we don't have a reasonable way to filter out that traffic right now. We have noted in the past that traffic coming from certain countries (specifically Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran) are more likely to have inflated bot numbers. And, based on the data I looked at, those are among the top countries for proportion of traffic coming in from IE11.

Thank you so much @kzimmerman for putting that dashboard together!

@Volker_E Does that help? You're welcome to book an appointment with us via https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Product_Analytics/Consultation_Hours to review any conclusions you draw from exploring the data on your own.

I don't think there's anything left for us to do (our limited data collection only lets us do so much and the dashboard Kate made using the self-service tools is about as much as we can do with the data we have) so I'm planning on closing this task next week.

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@kzimmerman @mpopov Yes, that's great and seems sufficient at first look. Thank you! Will share with my colleagues next.

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The table in the Superset dashboard seems to have broken and shows only zeros in the rightmost column, because everything is being rounded to whole numbers. Here's a modified version of that table with the rightmost column expressed as a percentage: https://superset.wikimedia.org/superset/explore/?form_data_key=ydYs8igZUJ2K66EIHre4cDkxInrHxkufxru4zZbkPx5ZUDKNr2H1ZZ8dJf6iUJd9&slice_id=3280