>Surely this can't be accurate though as most other sites on the internet
report virtually non-existent usage of IE7 (less than 1% everywhere I've
checked). Can someone >double-check this?
This is likely bot traffic with IE7 user-agent. See:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T148461

We will hopefully be able to tackle distortion of stats by non-labelled bot
traffic in the next year: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T138207

Issue for dataset noted here:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Data_Lake/Traffic/Browser_general#Changes_and_known_problems_since_2016-03-21




On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]>
wrote:

> According to...
> https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-
> sites-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view
> ... IE7 accounts for 2.5% of all pageviews in the last month.
>
> According to...
> https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#
> desktop-site-by-browser/browser-family-and-major-hierarchical-view
> ... IE7 accounts for 5.1% of all desktop pageviews in the last month.
>
> If that's true, IE7 (which came out 10 years ago) is more popular than all
> versions of Safari combined. It also means that we need to roll back a
> whole slew of features in MediaWiki that aren't supported in IE7.
>
> Surely this can't be accurate though as most other sites on the internet
> report virtually non-existent usage of IE7 (less than 1% everywhere I've
> checked). Can someone double-check this?
>
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