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arywiki view stats too low for agent = user?
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue:

  • See the page views stats for "agent = user" in this link
  • Compare to the page views stats for all agents in this link

What happens?:
The page views seem relatively stable for all agents accross the last few months (January and February 2024), but somehow dip significantly in the last two months when only (human?) users are taken into consideration.

What should have happened instead?:
Since I don't know how the stats are collected, I don't know what to expect exactly. Are some user views currently miscategorized as automated views? Or maybe the opposite in the past, and the current views are more accurate? Do "user" views include or exclude registered bots? etc.

Event Timeline

Maurusian updated the task description. (Show Details)

@Maurusian thank you for reporting this. We will investigate and report back here on what we find.

After some preliminary review by @nshahquinn-wmf and @Mayakp.wiki we would like to observe the trend for another two months in order to more confidently determine if the drop is due to a real drop in user page views or an issue with the data itself. Since the pageview rate returned to roughly the October 2022 range, it is likely a real drop in user page views, but we need more time to pass in order to analyze the trend.

Thank you, again, @Maurusian for bringing this to our attention.

@Mayakp.wiki and @nshahquinn-wmf added this to Movement-Insights so you can check for data quality in May or June

@Maurusian I am removing the wikistats tag on this task since this is a data quality question. Please let me know know if you have questions about this. Happy to answer them!