Edo,

>The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page per day. The rest of
the top10 drops quickly down to 5000 hits per day, a reasonable amount.
>But the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I do
a rough estimate, it looks like 1.500.000 is the total number of page
views, the number of unique >devices must be a lot smaller then.
Not sure where do your numbers come from but the number of pageviews on a
random day of April for nl.wikipedia (adding desktop and mobile across the
world) is about 5 million, discounting bots. No need to estimate, as we
count every one of them.

Here are some visuals:
https://vital-signs-test.wmflabs.org/#projects=nlwiki/metrics=Pageviews

Maybe we are looking at a different project? I was searching for "dutch
wikipedia"






On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Marcel Ruiz Forns <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Edo!
>
>
>> The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page per day. The rest
>> of the top10 drops quickly down to 5000 hits per day, a reasonable amount. 
>> But
>> the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I do a
>> rough estimate, it looks like 1.500.000 is the total number of page views,
>> the number of unique devices must be a lot smaller then.
>
>
> It does look like this, but if you sum all view counts for the top 993
> most visited articles (
> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/top/nl.wikipedia.org/all-access/2016/02/01),
> it adds up to 1.203.816. Also, nl.wikipedia.org has more than 1 million
> articles, I think the rest of articles not mentioned in the top would raise
> that count far above the 1.500.000. We should also consider that the
> majority of wikipedia visitors do 1-article-only lookups. So, I
> think 1.635.478 of unique devices makes sense.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Edo de Roo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gergo Tisza makes a valid point.
>>
>> The nl-wiki has 300.000-350.000 hits on the main page per day. The rest
>> of the top10 drops quickly down to 5000 hits per day, a reasonable amount.
>> But the 1.500.000 unique visitors per day then seems overstated, when I
>> do a rough estimate, it looks like 1.500.000 is the total number of page
>> views, the number of unique devices must be a lot smaller then.
>>
>> See
>> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/nl.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160201
>>
>> Edo de Roo
>> nl-wiki, wikidata
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:50 PM, <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
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>>> The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is
>>> now
>>> available to be queried programmatically via an API.
>>>
>>> This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for
>>> English
>>> Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and
>>> mobile) is as easy as launching this query:
>>>
>>>
>>> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160229
>>>
>>> You can get started by taking a look at our docs:
>>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start
>>>
>>> If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you
>>> need to know is that
>>> is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below.
>>>
>>> Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about
>>> unique web visitors.  In January 2016, however, we decided to stop
>>> reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the
>>> methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile usage.
>>> We
>>> are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices
>>> Dataset .
>>> While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good proxy
>>> for
>>> that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique
>>> devices
>>> is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand that
>>> counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very
>>> private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any
>>> cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3].
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices
>>> [2] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement
>>> [3]
>>>
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_unique_
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>>> Very interesting, thank you!
>>>
>>> Do you have any estimate of how much this overcounts? I checked the
>>> monthly
>>> uniques for huwiki
>>> <
>>> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/hu.wikipedia.org/all-sites/monthly/20160301/20160331
>>> >,
>>> and it's about 5.8 million, which is a bit higher than the total number
>>> of
>>> internet users in Hungary (estimated to 5.2 million). This Gemius analyis
>>> <http://www.gemius.com/all-reader-news/is-wikipedia-still-popular.html>
>>> from
>>> a year ago claims a 30% reach for Wikipedia, which would be about 1.5
>>> million. They use a software panel (a demographically representative
>>> group
>>> of volunteers who installed tracking software) so they might be
>>> inaccurate
>>> (and they only count traffic originating from Hungary I think) but
>>> probably
>>> not by a factor of four.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:17 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello!
>>> >
>>> > The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is
>>> > now available to be queried programmatically via an API.
>>> >
>>> > This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for
>>> English
>>> > Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and
>>> > mobile) is as easy as launching this query:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160229
>>> >
>>> > You can get started by taking a look at our docs:
>>> >
>>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start
>>> >
>>> > If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you
>>> > need to know is that
>>> > is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below.
>>> >
>>> > Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about
>>> > unique web visitors.  In January 2016, however, we decided to stop
>>> > reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the
>>> > methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile
>>> usage. We
>>> > are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices
>>> Dataset .
>>> > While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good
>>> proxy for
>>> > that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique
>>> devices
>>> > is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand
>>> that
>>> > counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very
>>> > private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any
>>> > cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3].
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices
>>> > [2] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement
>>> > [3]
>>> >
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_unique_
>>> > devices.3F
>>> >
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>>> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:50:09 -0700
>>> From: Kevin Leduc <[email protected]>
>>> To: "A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who
>>>         has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics."
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>>> Cc: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>,
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>>> Here's another useful link to a form that helps you construct the API
>>> call:
>>>
>>> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc#!/Unique_devices_data/get_metrics_unique_devices_project_access_site_granularity_start_end
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Nuria Ruiz <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello!
>>> >
>>> > The analytics team is happy to announce that the Unique Devices data is
>>> > now available to be queried programmatically via an API.
>>> >
>>> > This means that getting the daily number of unique devices [1] for
>>> English
>>> > Wikipedia for the month of February 2016, for all sites (desktop and
>>> > mobile) is as easy as launching this query:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/unique-devices/en.wikipedia.org/all-sites/daily/20160201/20160229
>>> >
>>> > You can get started by taking a look at our docs:
>>> >
>>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Unique_Devices#Quick_Start
>>> >
>>> > If you are not familiar with the Unique Devices data the main thing you
>>> > need to know is that
>>> > is a good proxy metric to measure Unique Users, more info below.
>>> >
>>> > Since 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation used comScore to report data about
>>> > unique web visitors.  In January 2016, however, we decided to stop
>>> > reporting comScore numbers [2] because of certain limitations in the
>>> > methodology, these limitations translated into misreported mobile
>>> usage. We
>>> > are now ready to replace comscore numbers with the Unique Devices
>>> Dataset .
>>> > While unique devices does not equal unique visitors, it is a good
>>> proxy for
>>> > that metric, meaning that a major increase in the number of unique
>>> devices
>>> > is likely to come from an increase in distinct users. We understand
>>> that
>>> > counting uniques raises fairly big privacy concerns and we use a very
>>> > private conscious way to count unique devices, it does not include any
>>> > cookie by which your browser history can be tracked [3].
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices
>>> > [2] [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ComScore/Announcement
>>> > [3]
>>> >
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Unique_Devices#How_do_we_count_unique_
>>> > devices.3F
>>> >
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