Meeting to review JavaScript Usage results held on 2016-02-11

Complete Analysis File here - which was the basis of the following meeting notes

93% is higher than Deb was expecting, so that's good
45% of traffic was from US; next was UK at 8%
- Is that typical?
  - It matches the portal dashboard numbers
  - We don't have a way to compare it to non-portal traffic

Nexus tend to default to chrome; others tend to default to Android browser
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2440409/nadella-windows-phone-market-share-is-unsustainable
- "Windows Phone market share is unsustainable" --Microsoft boss

Do these numbers align with the portal getting a few percent of total traffic?

Big takeaway:

KS: People who have turned it off might expect and/or deserve a less awesome experience
Older iOS browsers have to use a very slow js engine
- Poor experience might drive someone to disable js
Handy site: http://caniuse.com/ http://caniuse.com/#cats=JS%20API
Could we identify traffic coming from browsers that simply don't support js?
Obviously we don't want anything to break badly without js
- We can't clearly distinguish between people who choose to turn it off vs. had to turn it off
We know that <1% of traffic is from browsers that literally can't support js
Android 4, Chrome Mobile 30, and Opera Mini 7 were least likely to have js enabled
Bandwidth limitations may inspire people to disable js

If someone has both images and js disabled, they are not in this survey at all

Can continue moving forward with our existing mock-ups
When we do A/B testing, we should monitor how many people are seeing the js
Likewise, when we go to production, our dashboards need to reflect that
We don't want to make non-js experience worse, just because we are improving the UX with js
"js should not be required for searching"

JS support dictates who gets tracked by event logging

This shows that 93% of population is being reflected in event logs
However, that varies by country, so certain countries are under-represented in EL

No. We wanted to have this discussion, and allow Mikhail to tie up any loose ends
Should we wait for Oliver to get back and review?
- Probably should wait for Oliver
- And by then, we'll have another week of data, whcih could affect resutls (presumably in small ways)
Let's get it out as soon as it is ready
For anything we are going to push to production, we should clearly specify the non-js experience

Great job on the report, Mikhail!
It's good that we have tangible numbers rather than making guesses
The map with US traffic excluded is interesting
At end of report, could we have a comprehensive list of browsers?
- On dashboard, all browsers will be listed without filtering
- Mikhail will look into possibly adding an appendix to the report
Could we segregate results by desktop vs. mobile?

Would be interesting to compare these traffic patterns compared to wikipedia traffic

Maybe they never make it from the portal into the main sites
Reading is already tracking similar data for the main sites, so we can coordinate with them