On 8/30/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
-333 has been there since the beginning; I'm guessing it's something to do with the algorithm used, but I dunno what. I'll ask Leon if I see him - I'm curious now!
I'm guessing it's a division by three.
As in yesterday was the third day the script was running, and all the numbers ended in 0, 333 of 666 (or 667, I didn't look too closely). Today is the fourth day and all the numbers end in 0, 250, 500 or 750. Tomorrow they'll all end in 0, 200, 400, 600 or 800.
I would think that the script extrapolates the number of hits per page by multiplying the actual hits by the number used to set the sample frequency, 5000. It then divides by the number of days so far in the collection period (a month) to get hits per day.