I recall at some point the mobile site was setting the site type (Beta vs.
Normal) in one of the headers, either X-Analytics or X-CS.  But I don't see
any of that in the most recent varnish code [1].  I might not be looking in
the right place, or it may not be happening any more.  CC-ing mobile list
as someone there likely knows.

[1]
https://github.com/wikimedia/operations-puppet/blob/fb4205ccc384612e267d59babab7622b12bc6f00/templates/varnish/mobile-frontend.inc.vcl.erb

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sorry, this should be:
>
> >Mobile web beta does not have any special url. It is triggered by a
> cookie.
> If the COOKIE that identifies 'mobile-web-beta' is stripped off in varnish
> (something you can ask your devs about)...
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> (cc-ing analytics list)
>>
>> Jon:
>>
>> To get a prompt response please cc analytics or analytics-internal on
>> e-mails that way -given that we operate in three timezones- someone is
>> bound to see your e-mail and respond in a timely fashion.
>>
>>
>> >Right now the Gather feature is only available/discoverable on mobile
>> web beta for english wikipedia.
>> I assume "mobile web beta"  is deployed to enwiki in production just like
>> an special "skin" or 'extension.
>>
>>
>> >Mobile web beta does not have any special url. It is triggered by a
>> cookie.
>> If the that identifies 'mobile-web-beta' is stripped off in varnish
>> (something you can ask your devs about) then there is no way for you to see
>> that traffic. (this is the most-likely case I was looking around and
>> couldn't find any code that would be persisting this cookies further than
>> varnish).
>> However, if the cookie value is persisted to x-analytics field then
>> records are "findable".
>>
>> Now, if there are any javascript/css files ONLY used by the "mobile web
>> beta feature" you could do a (very, very) rough estimation of requests by
>> looking at those. Probably you want to team up with a developer to find out
>> whether this is possible.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Jon Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Nuria,
>>> Right now the Gather feature is only available/discoverable on mobile
>>> web beta for english wikipedia.  As such, it is really important that I
>>> know what the overall traffic is on mobile web beta.  How can I discover
>>> this using web request logs? Mobile web beta does not have any special url.
>>>
>>> It is triggered by a cookie.  Here is how a user opts in.  Any help
>>> would be greatly appreciated!!!
>>>
>>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>
>>
>
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