In order to have at least a partial answer we would need to know how the pageviews relate to actual database traffic I assume? That would explain Google and I do not know whether there are any other services worldwide that use the datastram without actually displaying pages.
Wojciech 2018-01-23 11:55 GMT+01:00 Anders Wennersten <[email protected]>: > We are seeing a steady decrease of page views to our projects (Wikipedia). > Nov-Dec-Jan it is decreasing in a rate of 5-10% (year-year), and for big > languages like Japanese, Spanish close to 10%, or some months even more > [1] > > Is there any insights of why this is so? Could it be that Google take over > accesses with their ever better way of showing results direct (but then > also with showing extracts of Wikipedia articles) . Or that our interface > on mobiles is inferior so we miss accesses from mobiles (now being 54% of > total). Or horror of horror that users look for facts on all new sites with > fake news instead of Wikipedia? > > Anders > > [1] https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
