TL;DR: never underestimate https://xkcd.com/214/ ? :) We must be careful
NOT to provide users [only] what they are looking for.
Toby Negrin, 14/10/2015 07:43:
There's a strange artifact in the desktop page views where they drop by
about 75mm at the end of 2013 but don't recover. Do we understand what
happened here.
Irrecoverable effects of One Direction album? ;)
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mobile-l/2013-December/006342.html
In that period there was a lot of work around redirects and forcing
users to use the mobile site. One major forceful redirect was in June
2014 (tablets) and you clearly see the impact on Jon's graphs.
SAL and
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MobileFrontend/Deployments are
not particularly useful for historical digging, it would be great to
have a timeline of major mobile configuration changes (or at least of
redirects).
http://bugs.wmflabs.org/buglist.cgi?chfield=resolution&chfieldfrom=2013-11-01&chfieldto=2014-01-31&longdesc=redir&longdesc_type=anywordssubstr&product=MobileFrontend&query_format=advanced
finds e.g. http://bugs.wmflabs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57127 and
http://bugs.wmflabs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49653
Things worth testing (or data worth recovering from the past if
possible) for their effect on session length:
* collapsing sections by default, providing easy "expand all" features etc.;
* collapsing/hiding other content (and maybe interface elements too);
* forceful redirects by device (e.g. did the forceful redirect for
tablets increase session length on tablets?);
* other major alterations AKA hacks compared to desktop.
Then the specific subcases can be switched to the experience which
proved most immersive.
Nemo
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