Team:

As of today incoming request data includes an extra bit of information on
the X-analytics header.

If an incoming request to any wikipedia project had no cookies whatsoever
it will be tagged with nocookie=1. A requests without any cookies could
correspond to a fresh browser session, a user browsing with cookies
disabled or, most likely, a bot request as most bots will not accept
cookies. We *might* be able to use this setting as a cheap proxy to
quantify bot traffic.


Documentation about this change can be found here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/X-Analytics


Thanks,

Nuria
_______________________________________________
Analytics mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics

Reply via email to