/ayatollahsong

Analysis of the impact of the HTTPS switchover in Iran

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ayatollahsong

there's a ban
in Iran
that they can't resist

(context)

Wikimedia sites switched over to HTTPS for readers by default in June 2015. Subsequently we saw a massive drop in pageviews from Iran. This is a simple project to try and understand if the two things are concretely linked, and whether the same event hit search requests.