No consistency in pageviews presented by the tool

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

I tried https://tools.wmflabs.org/glamtools/treeviews/?q={"pagepile":"25201"} for Dec 2018 month repeatedly,

It gives different numbers for each run

Run 1: 19,505 pages total 10,799 pages with views 48,898 total views

Run 2: 19,505 pages total 10,890 pages with views 49,546 total views

This makes it not useful.

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

I compared with PAGEVIEWS for a sample article

https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/#/Pageviews data/get_metrics_pageviews_per_article__project___access___agent___article___granularity___start___end_

For “లేపాక్షి”, I got 916 via pageviews, and the treeviews shows 820 in one run

[Arjuna Rao Chavala]

When used with category instead of pagepile, the results are consistent.