Users and Sessions numbers from search, comment and page-edit events look wrong or far too low

What you are seeing

Users and Sessions numbers from search, comment and page-edit events look wrong or far too low.


#Why it happens

All server-sent events deliberately share one Google client identity across every user and every site, for continuity with the older Connect app, and logged-out actors are folded into a single "anonymous" identity.


#What to do

Do not read Users or Sessions off the server-side event stream. Use the browser-collected page views for people and session counts, and treat the server-side events as event counts only.



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