Sorry I forgot to address this earlier:

>Do you think there are ways to fine-tune this, perhaps by excluding
clients that also didn't download images?
We can look at that but I suspect results will not differ much. Let me know
if you think is necessary.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> >That number is higher than I expected given that the general web was
> apparently closer to 1.3% in 2010
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9478737/browser-statistics-on-javascript-disabled>
> .
> mmm.. that study looks too old to be relevant, two things on that:
>
> *1) Numbers from 2010 do not include mobile browsers with widespread
> use nowadays. *
> For example: "Opera Mini". We have >1% of requests only from this browser
> (and I bet than in 2015 Yahoo is  seeing quite a few of those). Note that
> this 1% is a more precise one, derived directly from hadoop logs, requires
> no guesswork.
>
> So it is not surprising that the number of disabled javascript pageviews
> has gone up if you take mobile into account. Opera Mini does not support
> javascript in the ways you would expect:
> https://dev.opera.com/articles/opera-mini-and-javascript/
>
>
> *2) Our data differs from global stats in significant ways. *
> For example, our IE6 and IE7 traffic is way higher than global stats
> reported by http://gs.statcounter.com/ on the month of January. And note
> these browser percentages are more precise estimates on our end (unlike the
> javascript estimate that requires some cross checking and guesswork). Also,
> note the total percentage we report over pageviews includes bots so
> excluding those our IE6 and IE7 traffic is even higher than the one I am
> noting below.
>
> Browser, Percentage of total pageviews by our account, global percentage
> by statscounter
> IE6: 1.01%, 0.09%
> IE7: 0.7% , 0.14%
>
> I do not expect that our numbers are going to match 100% to statscounter
> but I think is an OK guide to cross-check oneself, especially cause they
> deploy their beacons worldwide:http://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology
>
>
> >Finally, is there a way to gauge the difference in JS support between
> anonymous & authenticated users from this data?
> No, I do not think we can do that with this dataset.
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 7:19 PM, Gabriel Wicke <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you, Nuria!
>>
>> That number is higher than I expected given that the general web was
>> apparently closer to 1.3% in 2010
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9478737/browser-statistics-on-javascript-disabled>.
>> Do you think there are ways to fine-tune this, perhaps by excluding clients
>> that also didn't download images?
>>
>> Finally, is there a way to gauge the difference in JS support between
>> anonymous & authenticated users from this data?
>>
>> Gabriel
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Gabriel:
>>>
>>> I have run through the data and have a rough estimate of how many of our
>>> pageviews are requested from browsers w/o strong javascript support. It is
>>> a preliminary rough estimate but I think is pretty useful.
>>>
>>> TL;DR
>>> According to our new pageview definition (
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Page_view) about 10% of
>>> pageviews come from clients w/o much javascript support. But - BIG CAVEAT-
>>> this includes bots requests. If you remove the easy-too-spot-big-bots the
>>> percentage is <3%.
>>>
>>> Details here (still some homework to do regarding IE6 and IE7)
>>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Analytics/Reports/ClientsWithoutJavascript
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Nuria
>>>
>>
>>
>
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