Sorry for the delayed update. I appreciate you taking the time to think this through. Correct me if I'm wrong, but your search example is a manual version of timechart that uses per_second. This doesn't account for overlap and it dilutes the results as most request would likely be less than 30 seconds. I could reduce your example to 30 seconds rather than 5 minutes, but I'm also serving larger multimedia files like video, audio, PDF and Flash objects that would overlap several buckets.
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