Thanks for digging into this, Adam. I don't think the prominence of the
feature is justified by the usage stats, so I'd be in favor of removing it
from Opera/lower JS devices.


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Adam Baso <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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