1168642 - Average daily users value on 6 day cycle

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Statistics, defect)

Description

[u462496]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
Build ID: 20150513174244

Steps to reproduce:

I observed over the months how my average daily users value would fluctuate up and down in a weekly cycle, even though the graphs seemed to show a steady pattern

So I calculated the average daily user value over the previous 6 days, and then again over the previous 7 days.


Actual results:

The Average daily user value as posted on the addon page is taken over the previous 6 days, not 7.



Expected results:

I believe it would be more meaningful to calculate over the previous 7 days rather than 6.

I don’t know about others, but my addons have a consistent pattern of decreasing on weekends.  I imagine depending on the type of addon, this pattern could be the inverse.  The point is, it seems as though it would be typical that users frequency be cyclic around a 7 day period, and calculating the average daily users value on the previous 7 days rather than 6 would give a more indicative average, and the value would not fluctuate so much.