Good question, will take a look once I'm at a place with stats cluster
access.



On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> How does this compare to usage of users on say Chrome...?
>  On 9 Jun 2014 18:02, "Adam Baso" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Juliusz suggested I email out details to mobile-l on the following.
>>
>> The question arose during an Opera discussion today whether hiding the
>> Watchlist icon (which is the case on non-HTTPS supporting UX on Wikipedia
>> Zero) on mobile web in the page menubar (not the same as the flyout
>> "hamburger" menu) might make sense generally for <noscript> or lower JS
>> devices? The Watchlist star on the page menubar takes up a lot of space,
>> and as it's the only thing there at the moment (on en.m at least, icons
>> like Edit and Add Photo aren't shown), hiding that menubar icon would free
>> up some valuable screen real estate.
>>
>> On <noscript> or lower JS devices (or browsers where RL suppresses JS due
>> typically to challenges around timing of Deferreds and the like), using the
>> Opera traffic as an example of such a browser, it seems like Watchlist
>> usage is sort of low (this is at 1% sampling resolution).
>>
>> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz |
>> grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep 'action=watch' | wc -l
>> 3
>>
>> In other words, it seems users make it to the point of using the feature,
>> but only about 300 times per day total. Meanwhile, the Watchlist start
>> takes up valuable screen real estate for every pageview.
>>
>> The usage of the feature is about 1/10 of the Opera usage involving
>> submission of the login form (a prerequisite of watchlist usage).
>>
>> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz |
>> grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep -i 'Special:UserLogin' | grep 'POST' | wc -l
>> 31
>>
>> Which is about 1/10 of Opera usage of the login feature in any capacity
>> (GETting the form or POSTing the form)
>>
>> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz |
>> grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep -i 'Special:UserLogin' | wc -l
>> 331
>>
>> Which is maybe 1/270 of an oversimplified "pageview" metric on Opera
>> Mini, using text/html response types as a rough guide.
>>
>> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz |
>> grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep 'text/html' | wc -l
>> 89403
>>
>> The relatively low usage of the Watchlist feature is probably symptomatic
>> of the multiscreen flow on such devices.
>>
>> -Adam
>>
>>
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