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Why do these two searches return different results for page views?

pladamsplunk
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I've downloaded an application for web analytics, however on two separate dashboards it shows two difference values for "pageviews" which I would think should be consistent throughout the data. The two searches for page views are the following.

| tstats summariesonly=t max(Web.http_session_pageviews) FROM datamodel=Web WHERE Web.site="*" "Web.eventtype"=pageview GROUPBY Web.http_session

....this search produces the value 60,000

| tstats summariesonly=t count(Web.http_session_pageviews) FROM datamodel=Web WHERE Web.site="*" "Web.eventtype"=pageview GROUPBY Web.http_session

... this search produces the value 230,000

Can anyone help me understand the difference between these two searches and why they are returning different values (even though I believe they should be returning the same value since pageviews in the data is a constant value) ?

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sundareshr
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The difference is between max and count. The first query is returning the max value in http_session_pageviews field, whereas the second query is returning the count of events.

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