Wikipedia talk:Pageview statistics

'internal server error'
All queries made using the external link http://stats.grok.se/ result in 'internal server error'. Not sure if this is a temporary error or not. May need to delete http://stats.grok.se/ and (references to) if so. Will check back later. --Open Research (talk) 20:37, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

Does pageview statistic include / exclude
Does pageview statistic include / exclude: Thanks, New worl (talk) 16:49, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * 'Revision history' page?
 * Previous version of the current page?
 * etc.

Missing data
I noticed today that there is now pageview data available for the past 5 days, for any of the wikipedia pages I checked. The graph shows stats up to last week, then leaves a big blank space where there should be more stats. Anybody know what's going on? thanks --Jackson665 (talk) 15:12, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Have a look there... --78.53.66.106 (talk) 21:31, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

An excellent and useful tool, if you know how to make it work...
Unfortunately, https://tools.wmflabs.org/ works only if cookies and JavaScript (for all sites) are allowed. I avoid JavaScript because of security issues. Now I am forced to use it. 85.193.216.175 (talk) 12:04, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Please add a link to the traffic statistics of an article to article-pages
Iirc there once was a link to the stats.grok.se (now disfunctional) stats found on every article page (somewhere at the bottom). It seems that the link has been removed.

I'd like to ask for a new link on article pages that leads users to the Pageviews Analysis traffic statistics of the article.

These statistics can be very interesting for users and even serve academic or journalistic purposes to some extend. With very few exceptions nobody knows that these statistics even exist.

There are various ways how it can be linked; I'd suggest adding a "Traffic statistics" item to the "Tools" links on the left.

I also suggested this at VillagePump here.

--Fixuture (talk) 13:34, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Do they also include API requests?
Do the pageviews also include API requests? If so which and which not?

And if they're included are they marked in some special way similar to views from redirects?

Also if they're included that should be noted somewhere on the page as software might request Wikipedia articles without the user actually seeing anything of their contents.

--Fixuture (talk) 14:17, 10 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I too had this question. The answer is that they are only counted if from a mobile app using them to fetch page content (source). Somnifuguist (talk) 09:43, 18 March 2021 (UTC)

Gaps in stats collection
If you look at these stats, the stats for the first five months are considerably lower than the remaining months. Why is this? Please also tell us which days or how many days each month the tool is not running. Thanks! SharkD  Talk  16:18, 2 June 2017 (UTC)

What time zone is used by the pageview statistics API?
I'm guessing the time is UTC, but I have not been able to find this bit of info anywhere. It would be helpful if this could be stated somewhere in the documentation for the tool. Apparently, changing the hour in the URL request does not affect the result. E.g., consider this link:

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/metrics/pageviews/per-article/en.wikipedia/all-access/all-agents/R%20(programming%20language)/daily/2015100115/2015100215

It requests pageviews stats from hour 15 of 2015-10-01 to hour 15 of 2015-10-02 (presumably UTC?). But the output is the same as if one specified the hours as 00 (which makes me wonder why the hour is even something someone can specify--I'm assuming because future functionality will allow for hourly stats?). Indeed, you can even see that the output converts the requested hour to 00, from the requested 15:

{ items: [ { project: "en.wikipedia", article: "R_(programming_language)", granularity: "daily", timestamp: "2015100100", access: "all-access", agent: "all-agents", views: 3837 }, { project: "en.wikipedia", article: "R_(programming_language)", granularity: "daily", timestamp: "2015100200", access: "all-access", agent: "all-agents", views: 3447 } ] } ZippoK (talk) 04:19, 28 April 2018 (UTC)


 * Did you get an answer to this question by any chance? LaTerreACotta (talk) 18:29, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Timestamps seem to be in UTC, according to meta:Research:Page view and wikitech:Analytics/AQS/Pageviews.
 * If someone has a more definitive answer, feel free to chime in. LaTerreACotta (talk) 18:51, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Include or exclude
Does the page view / Pageview statistics include or exclude views of editors? --Ant a n O 10:35, 11 June 2018 (UTC)

Baseline for page views?
Would I be right in thinking that due to webcrawlers/bots/etc. a page will likely receive a baseline number of views even if few/no human beings ever view it? Would ~3 views a month be a likely baseline figure for that? FOARP (talk) 19:53, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

Broken
The link in Pageview_statistics - https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/reading/total-page-views/normal%7Cbar%7CAll%7C~total - doesn't seem to display anything useful anymore Hanyangprofessor2 (talk) 04:43, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Is "Wireshark" a typo?
"=== Wireshark (successor of from stats.grok.se) === WikiShark is the tool for observing trends.

Initially, the older tool stats.grok.se (replaced by WikiShark), have been updated lastly in 2016. At the moment the server redirects to wikishark, seemingly the successor."

I don't know anything about this topic, but could "Wireshark" in the title be a typo, by any chance? The body talks only of "wikishark". Polar Apposite (talk) 15:37, 25 October 2023 (UTC)