Hi Amir,

Would it be crazy to ask for statistics of user agents per page or per
> namespace?

I'd hypothesize, for example, that IE is used much less outside of the
> article and portal namespaces.


I don't think it's crazy. I +1 your hypothesis :]
But, yes, I see it difficult to implement:

   - The new user-agent breakdown reports (browser-reports.wmflabs.org) are
   derived from the pageview_hourly table which comes from the webrequest
   table, both in hadoop. None of them has structured information about the
   namespace. It should be parsed from the URL or other fields, but the
   namespaces have different names in different languages, so this would be
   very tricky.

   - Breaking down the user-agent statistics per article would be also very
   expensive computationally, given the high number of articles. The Pageview
   API shows pageviews per article, and to reach this we Analytics have had to
   solve storage and data loading and compression problems, that arose from
   the big size of that data. Having user-agent breakdown per article would
   mean multiplying the size of that by a lot.

Maybe I'm missing an easier way to do it, but it seems it would take a long
time to solve this.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Amir E. Aharoni <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Would it be crazy to ask for statistics of user agents per page or per
> namespace?
>
> I'd hypothesize, for example, that IE is used much less outside of the
> article and portal namespaces.
>
> In case you're wondering what is it useful for: When I have a patch that
> requires browser compatibility trickery, I may want to invest less time in
> IE compatibility in a page that is unlikely to be viewed in IE much.
>
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