[Summary-Talk] Variations in page counts

[Jeff Whitmill <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A media client of ours sends the following report and questions:

> I noticed an anomaly between the total pages numbers for the year on 
> oursite.org/statistics/december2005/report-10.html and the monthly 
> pages numbers on oursite.org/statistics/december2005/report-120.html. 
>
> For the home page, it's a small difference:  770,785 on the monthly, 
> cf. 769,243 on the total; a diff of 1,542 more on the monthly.
>
> But for the TV Schedules page, the difference is more pronounced:  
> 427,932 on the monthly cf. 423,980 on the total; a diff of 3,952 more 
> on the monthly - almost a 1% difference.
>
> And then for the TV page, it's back to tiny again:  173,653 on the 
> monthly cf 173,426 on the total - a diff of only 227.
>
> But for Radio, it's up to 885 more on monthly than total.

> The weekly and daily pages are showing the same year totals as the 
> monthly pages.  That kinda tosses out the theory that the data degrade 
> as you get more granular.  What do you think?  Why would we be getting 
> that much, and that inconsistent, of a variation?
>
> Or I could just leave it be and take it for what it is and not worry 
> about it?

What can I tell her about this?

Jeff Whitmill
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