Looking at all non-JS devices is a bit challenging.

That said, Opera proxy market share of pageviews on mobile web is about 5%
of mobile web total from what we've seen (X-Analytics of proxy=Opera on
text/html responses for certain well-defined "obvious" pageview request
paths). Add to Watchlist is the only button on the menubar for such Opera
proxy-sourced users, whose experience is about the same as <noscript> or
other devices where the RL bootstrapping process bars further JS
hooks. Opera proxy-sourced usage of the Add to Watchlist feature is about
0.5% of total non-Opera proxy-sourced access.

$ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz |
grep -v 'proxy=Opera' | grep 'returntoquery=article_action%3Dwatch' | wc -l
527
# note the grep -v for exclusion

$ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz |
grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep 'action=watch' | wc -l
3
# note this is inclusive grep

No Opera proxy-sourced usage invoked unwatching an article for that
particular day from the looks of it.

$ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz |
grep 'proxy=Opera' | grep 'action=unwatch' | wc -l
0

I can't say for sure, but I suspect the trends for watch/unwatch are about
the same on the other <noscript> and RL module load JS-barred UAs.

I can't remember if that was something that was tracked at the outset, but
I wonder if adding EL for the higher-JS Add to Watchlist JSON calls (that
is, the ones invoked on tap of the star /post-authentication/) would be
useful longer run, as it seems like a kind of interesting metric to gauge
interest and regression analysis as items for higher-JS browsers are
added/subtracted/reworked on the menubar?  I couldn't tell if Add to
Watchlist taps on higher-JS was part of
http://mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/watchlist-activity or
mobile-reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/ui-daily; those seem more related to
actual Watchlist maintenance and sidebar usage, respectively, instead.
Maybe it's somewhere in a wfDebuglog or backend EL table?

-Adam





On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maryana, I'm still not convinced that these usage stats tell the whole
> story. Also when talk/Flow gets added, then there will be 2 buttons in
> that bar, so I'm not sure the screen real estate issue is a good
> argument. Would we also remove Flow from the menu? Removing the
> watchstar from Opera only would actually be messy. The only correct
> way to do this programatically would be to remove the page actions bar
> for all non-JavaScript users (I refuse to have some nasty Opera
> specific hack).
>
> Some more questions and points:
> * you should look for the unwatch action as well. 'action=watch' is
> only for watching articles.
> * What is the global usage of the watchstar without JavaScript? What %
> of this is from Opera?
>
> e.g.
> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz
> | grep 'action=watch'
> $ zcat /a/squid/archive/mobile/mobile-sampled-100.tsv.log-20140409.gz
> | grep 'action=unwatch'
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Maryana Pinchuk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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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