Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-26339491-20200723234809

KrytenKoro wrote: We have so far not seen anything in our data that wound indicate this change having any negative consequences on traffic or SEO rankings or even general user satisfaction. Yes, there is a minuscule percentage of users who do not want to log in and who are negatively impacted by the file pages redirect. The vast, vast majority will never notice, or care, however, and communities overall benefit from increased visibilty of their pages on Google (or other search engine results pages). Mira, we've had several reports from site admins explaining that users contacted them thinking this was a bug. How does your data capture that?

We can see changes in SEO rankings overall or per wiki, traffic changes, changes in anon behavior, e.g. do they view fewer pages, edit (even) less, stay on Fandom for a shorter duration of time, all of which would indicate that they're less satisfied with Fandom. Prior to this change, we also looked at how often anons view or edit file pages (that's a ridiculously tiny fraction of visitors). Other than tracking mass trends, we can also track how many bug reports we receive overall and how many reports of a specific issue, although we don't bother with that unless our support team really notices the same thing getting reported multiple times. They haven't really seen this come up.

However, it would be interesting to see those reports by anons who noticed and complained about the change. Do you have links?