Great, thanks Stephen! Any chance the next version of Analog could note the denominators in the respective charts (Search Query Report, Referring Site Report, etc.)? Obviously that number is "known," and people here get very excited when told over 150,000 search queries found their way to our site :-)
For charts where the related denominator would be misleading, perhaps you could just reiterate a more accurate total instead. For example in the Search Word Report note the total number of search queries. Thanks again, - aj -----Original Message----- On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, A.J. Lahosky wrote: > I'm trying to understand the denominator used for various percentages and > pie charts in Analog's output. > > BTW, it would be *great* if the charts actually noted the denominator. > Perhaps this is an option I haven't found yet :-) > > > If I work backwards from, say, a Search Query Report showing these > results... > > pages: %pages: search term: calculated denominator > -----: ------: -----------: ====================== > 10,737: 6.99%: oats 153,605.1502 > 5,678: 3.69%: peas 153,875.3388 > 5,370: 3.49%: beans 153,868.1948 > ... > = average ~153,783 (pages) > > ...can I imply that, in total, about 153,783 search queries found their way > to my site? > Well, in the case of search _words_ (as opposed to search queries) it's perhaps a bit misleading, because a single search can be made of several words -- it's the total number of all the words, not of all the queries, that is being used. But otherwise you're correct, and in other reports it makes the sense you think it should make. :-) -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
