There’s a problem that I’m experiencing on two of my five installations of Mint. These two installations are totally unrelated; different websites, servers, etc. Both are running 2.16 (v64). (The other three installations do not exhibit this problem.)
When grouping traffic by a time span (i.e., Referrers -> Repeat -> Past hour) the top item is always inaccurate. For instance, one of my blogs says that I’ve received 222 visits from kottke.org in the past four hours, my top referrer in that time frame. This is plausible. But when I change the time frame to eight hours, kottke.org is nowhere to be found, despite that the list includes referrers with substantially lower counts.
Ditto for Pages (i.e. Pages -> Most Popular -> 48 hours). That claims that there have been 2,903 visits to a year-old article on our site, or our number one page in that period. That’s pretty unlikely, though possible. But when I toggle to 24 hours, that article no longer makes the cut, despite that it ought to be #1 for that period.
My guess as to what’s going on here is a that Mint is using the traffic data incorrectly in a pretty basic way. Everything that doesn’t make the cut for the top 18 lists that are used throughout—that is, everything at #19 and below—is all being grouped together and counted collectively. Whatever happens to bubble up to the top of that list (presumably the referrer or page name or whatever is serving as the unique element) as a result of being arbitrarily first in MySQL’s storage order is made the bearer of that collective statistic.
So if a site has gotten a thousand referrals in the past 24 hours, evenly distributed among 100 referrers, Then that should be ten each. But on Mint’s Top 18 lists, the bottom 17 would each have ten, and the number one referrer would show 830 visits (1,000 - (17 * 10)).
I’ve checked out Mint’s tables in MySQL. They are without error and optimized.
Has anybody else experienced this problem? Is this perhaps a result of something that I’ve done wrong? Perhaps something a Pepper is causing?
