In general, we struggle with these external sources of information. (And this extends to the industry in general). The Research team expended a lot of energy to correct the way another service interpreted our traffic and I believe this feedback was not incorporated.
We are public with our page views and the Analytics team and Erik have now updated wikistats so I am reasonable comfortable in being able to assess month to month changes. -Toby On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan Andreescu, 18/11/2015 22:32: > >> But that was explained to me as "we started filtering spiders better". >> So I don't think that would affect Alexa's numbers but maybe it's a bad >> coincidence that around the same time something else happened that >> dropped the numbers. And the convolution made us all miss it. >> > > Or maybe the Alexa stats contained the same filtering error and fixed it > at the same time as us! Sounds unlikely. > > > Nemo > > _______________________________________________ > Analytics mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/analytics >
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