On 25 August 2016 at 05:25, Aubrey Rembert <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi, > > our team is trying to determine how pageviews are attributed to pages that > redirect to other pages. > > for instance, the page Panic!_at_the_*d*isco redirects to the page > Panic!_at_the_*D*isco, however, in the pageview dumps file > there is an entry for both Panic!_at_the_disco and Panic!_at_the_Disco. > does this mean that a single visit to the page Panic!_at_the_disco > generates two entries > in the pageview dumps file (one entry for the source page of the redirect > and another for the target page of the redirect)? > > Dario's reply covers it but just wanted to elaborate a tiny bit: For traditional web redirects your assumption would be true. There, a request for a redirect url would get a 30x HTTP response with a pointer to the target url. In which case the web browser will make a subsequent request for the target url so that it can show the desired page. However wiki redirects don't work that way. A request for a redirect wiki page immediately results in a response for the target article (with a little "Redirect from" caption under the title). So there'll be only 1 web request, 1 response, and 1 page view, logged under the redirect name. -- Timo
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