Legacy telemetry in Focus Android is double counting searches

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Alessio Placitelli

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Nov 11, 2022, 7:21:54 AM11/11/22

to fx-da...@mozilla.org, data-org, Romain Testard, Chris Peterson

tl;dr

Focus/Klar Android are double counting the search counts as measured in legacy telemetry. Data collected with Glean is correct.

Why is this happening?

This is because, when a user enters a search term on the URL bar, the search telemetry is recorded twice by calling two functions : urlBarEvent and searchEnterEven

What happens now?

The Data Org is working to officially move decision making on search and KPI on Glean Data (see this spreadsheet) by the end of 2022. Starting from 2023, Glean data will be the official source of data for these topics.

Starting from 2023 we will discuss disabling legacy telemetry and eventually decommissioning it.

We recommend this bug to be fixed in Focus Android, although now that we know about it its impact will be limited.