[18:48:44] <aharoni>	 Hallo
[18:49:01] <aharoni>	 HaeB suggested I ask this here, even though it's mostly about desktop.
[18:49:26] <aharoni>	 What would be the best way to measure the number of clicks on Interlanguage links?
[18:50:06] <aharoni>	 We are planning to take the Compact Language Links feature out of its long-overdue Beta status, and I'd love to measure its impact.
[18:50:39] <HaeB>	 (copying over what i already wrote on #wikimedia-anaytics, for context:)
[18:50:43] <HaeB>	 there have been various instrumentations, e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Schema:MobileWebLanguageSwitcher recently
[18:51:56] <bmansurov>	 HaeB: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T128917
[18:55:31] <aharoni>	 bmansurov: is that something that I could reuse for desktop interlanguage links?
[18:55:31] <HaeB>	 also, the elderly among us (e.g. amir and i ;) remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-06-07/News_and_notes
[18:55:32] <HaeB>	 "we measured the click behavior for two groups of English Wikipedia users, Monobook and Vector (Vector users are primarily those who participated in the beta). Of Monobook and Vector users, 0.95% and 0.28% clicked on the language links (out of 126,180 and 180,873 total clicks), respectively."
[18:56:00] <aharoni>	 I thought about doing it with EventLogging, but I'm afraid it's not the right tool.
[18:56:14] <bmansurov>	 aharoni: you could but you need to modify it a little bit
[18:56:22] <bmansurov>	 aharoni: why is eventlogging not the right tool?
[18:56:33] <bmansurov>	 because of lousy support for sendBeacon?
[18:56:56] <aharoni>	 I don't know what sendBeacon, but then I'm really not an EventLogging expert.
[18:57:26] <bmansurov>	 aharoni: If you're interested, then I can help with instrumentation of desktop links with EL
[18:57:29] <aharoni>	 Mostly because interlanguage links are links, which cause people to navigate away, and I'm not sure that the event will actually be logged. I might be wrong, though.
[18:57:49] <bmansurov>	 aharoni: you're right, that's why sendBeacon is used to send events 
[18:58:06] <bmansurov>	 aharoni: more info: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/sendBeacon
[18:58:14] <bmansurov>	 aharoni: gotta go, but i'm happy to talk about it later
[18:58:33] <HaeB>	 aharoni: in that instrumentation, the click is actually recorded, see the schema description page
[18:59:11] <HaeB>	 i wonder how howie did it on desktop in 2010 though
[19:02:15] <aharoni>	 bmansurov: I'll be very interested when you're around.
[19:14:10] <aharoni>	 bmansurov: I read a bit about sendBeacon, sounds like the right thing.