Hi Duncan,

Thank you for reaching out! And sorry for the late reply.

We don't have a periodic scheduled process that corrects or backfills the Analytics Query Service API.

However, sometimes there are unexpected issues either in the underlying data or in the systems that compute the API data.

When this happens, we do indeed correct the data as soon as possible.

Sometimes we manage to correct it before it reaches the API; otherwise, as you imagined, we have to reload the corrected data to the API after the fact.

Cheers!

On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:28 PM Duncan Grubbs <duncan@predata.com> wrote:

Hello,

After experiencing some strange behavior re-fetching pageview data, I am wondering if it is possible that the daily pageview count for an article could change after the data is originally published to the API.

For example, if I fetch the daily pageviews on an article for the date 14-08-23, and then re-fetch the daily pageviews for the same article in the future, is it expected that the value for 14-08-23 could be different?

Is there a backfill or correction process that can update daily pageview counts for days that are already available via the API?

Any information is appreciated!

Thanks,
Duncan

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