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Why do my page views from 1 month prior on the summary view not match the report when I run the same report for the prior month

Recently I was speaking to one of our customers and they realized that the numbers shown for 1 month prior and 2 months prior in the summary of the "Monthly Page Report" do not match the actual number shown when they actually run the report for the prior month or 2 months prior.

This admitedly is confusing, so I will try to explain why.  When building LoadStats we thought it would be more effective to actually compare like days, meaning we wanted to compare monday to monday.  Because the months of the year do not line up this way the two numbers do not match.  The report is actually taking the total number of days in the month you have selected and then taking that number of days prior to the first of the month and calling labeling it "1 month prior" and then it is doing the same thing for "2 months prior".

This seems more usefull than comparing the 1st of the month to the 1st of the month prior.
Published Wednesday, December 13, 2006 9:08 PM by adam@loadmail.com

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