Knowing that, what is the use of this stats page after all ?
The theory seems to be it eventually gets there. I only started paying attention to the numbers on a frequent basis after the big crash, and I see it as always mysteriously haphazard. At one point the aggregate total that appears on our profile pages seemed to be updating about every 25 or 26 hours. Each day the time at which a new number was available was later in the day and eventually a whole day would go by with no update. Then there are periods where that appears to work fairly well and the big stats page with the bars is way behind. I just assume it will eventually get there.
But it is amusing to speculate on the whats and whys!
Remarkable is the fact that the basic counts are apparently there and cookin', it's the retrieval and presentation that gets wonky. (Or maybe they're just made up -- that's been speculated in the past!
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