On 29/08/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/29/06, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Jellyfish wasn't on the list at all last
night; the statistics are
sampling (I think) one in five thousand pageviews, so it's quite
likely a glitch. They've only been running for a couple of days, and
I'd strongly advise against treating them as reliable until at least a
fortnight in.
The sampling period is, from my observation, constantly being
decreased. It was 5000, then 1000, then 500, now 333. Well, I'm
guessing just looking at what numbers have turned up at different
times.
You can see what I believe is the sampling period by looking at
[[MediaWiki:monobook.js]]; it's currently 5000, and hasn't been lower
than 3000.
However, I can't see why Irukandji jelly fish
would be so high. It's
not linked from anything, it's not in the news, and it's not even
jellyfish season in Queensland. It could just be a statistical
anomaly, or perhaps someone is deliberately messing with the stats?
I'm betting on anomaly.
That said...
JonBenet Ramsay is interesting - it surged last night and
with no link from the front page. Interesting to see how quickly our
use (apparently) reacts to news stories. The sex-related ones - lists
of porn stars etc - were consistently high and are now dropping; I
wonder where they'll stabilise at.
Yes, that trend is interesting - why did they all show up so high then
disappear. Was it a time of day thing? More stats required!! :)
I really hope we will end up with "last 24 hours" and "last 7 days"
stats.
It looks like it's designed to work month-by-month - I'm not sure how
reliable the figures would be at smaller "resolutions". Best ask
Leon...
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