Beneficios

Esta extensión proporciona a los editores información en forma de medición de audiencia. Conocer el tamaño aproximado de la propia audiencia como editor permite a los redactores identificar y mejorar los artículos populares. La página especial de HitCounters Páginas populares también permite a los editores centrarse en mejorar los artículos con mayor tráfico, y ayuda a los lectores a descubrir los contenidos más curados de un proyecto.

La extensión HitCounters permite determinar el wikiFactor, una medida aproximada de la popularidad de un sitio web wiki.

HitCounters extension is minimally intrusive concerning data security and privacy concerns. The extension handles metrics on the server side, so aggregated data stays within the site's security boundary. The extension does not inject JavaScript to be executed by the client and does not ask a client to download additional un-audited code from a third party, like GoogleAnalyticsMetrics .

La extensión no detecta a los usuarios que visitan la página. As such, there's no need for special handling of "Do Not Track" browser requests or Global Privacy Control settings. The extension also does not use third-party services like the GoogleAnalyticsMetrics extension.

The extension has no dependencies that can cause conflicts. Other extensions, like GoogleAnalyticsMetrics, can cause problems during a Composer update. Also see P6481.

Diferencias de la implementación de MediaWiki principal

Before MediaWiki 1.25, the page views counting functionality was in core MediaWiki. This extension is based on that same code but was deliberately made lighter to speed up processing time. Many lines of superfluous code were removed. Also, the old MediaWiki core code performed numerous database queries on every page hit; these have all been removed. This change may lead to some inaccuracies in the data.

The core differences that wiki administrators need to know are:

• The hit counts are stored in the cache.
• The visible hit count at the bottom of each page is updated only once daily. (Pages with a hit count of less than 100 are updated once per minute.)
• That hit is ignored if you refresh your browser on a wiki page.

Lo que cuenta como vista

According to tests conducted by several MediaWiki operators, a view is counted if a page is accessed (action=view), as well as action=render and when accessing a page revision.

A view is not counted with the other actions, such as action=raw, action=edit, and action=info.

Migration