Page MenuHomePhabricator

Provide visitor stats that can be imported into caniuse.com
Open, Needs TriagePublic

Description

Can I use... is the standard tool for assessing browser support. It shows (among many other things) what fraction of users have browsers supporting a given feature, and allows importing a Google Analytics or Simple Analytics export file of site visits so you can use your own website's browser distribution instead of whatever global default they choose.

It would be great if such files were available for Wikimedia site users (even better if there were separate readers / editors files as a lot of our code is targeted at editors only and it's a fairly different demographic), so we could easily check how many of our users are cut off from using a given feature.

Event Timeline

(Couldn't find any analytics-related project that isn't specific either to some software component or to some WMF management process, so tagging WMF-General-or-Unknown.)

I think that potential privacy concerns would need to be sorted out before something like this is implemented.

The data provided by https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/ can be downloaded. What do you want above and beyond that?

The data provided by https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/ can be downloaded. What do you want above and beyond that?

A tool to convert it to a SimpleAnalytics export file.
Also ideally the same data for editors (that data is for all users, which in practice means readers).

What would be the way you envision getting this data for editors?

Just filter to logged-in pageviews. I think we already do that somewhere, there just isn't any public export of the data.

@Tgr If I understand your goal, you want access to data that tells you all the browsers that editors and readers use- am I understanding you correctly?
You are looking to get that information in aggregate, not per user.

What will having this information help you and your team accomplish that you are not currently able to?
Would having this information advance any OKR, committed, or essential work?