On 8/30/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)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.
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Stephen Bain
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