Was noticing something looked a little wrong with my 7DMA tracking of posts per day. Weekly peaks and valleys I didn't think should be happening since any 7-day period will only have 2 weekend days in it.
Looked at my source code and indeed there was a mistake. Your figures were more accurate than mine, although yours were a tad on the low end. Not much though.
I'd made a rookie error. You know how a lot of beginners get tripped up by zero-based counting, so, for example, the 8th element of an array is identified by a 7, etc? Well, this was similar to that.
I'm storing posting totals in an array so I can do my averages. Figured "Okay, subtract 7 from the current subscript, add them all up from there to the current one, divide by 7, and I've got a 7DMA."
Unh-uh.
If today's the 29th and I subtract 7, I get the 22nd. Problem is, from the 22nd through the 29th isn't 7 days. It's 8! So what I was doing was totalling 8 days of posting and dividing that by 7 and calling it my 7DMA.
Can't believe I did that! Especially since I *never* have trouble with zero-based arrays and such.
I fixed it, and the numbers leveled out like I thought they should've to begin with.
I think there's a saying that goes something like "Figures don't lie unless liars figure." Well, it should be "Figures don't lie unless liars figure or the figures were produced by a programmer who threw the figures together too quickly."
PS. I'm still excited about the Alexa score. Especially since for the past 4 weeks they've been making sure only unique pages viewed by unique users are getting counted. I don't know how many people let Favorites autorefresh, but it's good to know that's not impacting the score.
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