Most of the fields returned in the info object are totals, so they're perfect. Some of them are rates though.
- answers_per_minute
- badges_per_minute
- questions_per_minute
Having these fields set at a per minute resolution makes sense for Stack Overflow, but for many (most?) of the sites in the network, these values have no precision. I noticed this when looking at the results for The Workplace:
{
"items": [
{
"total_questions": 2319,
"total_unanswered": 3,
"total_accepted": 1420,
"total_answers": 8541,
"questions_per_minute": 0,
"answers_per_minute": 0.01,
"total_comments": 28925,
"total_votes": 91670,
"total_badges": 17680,
"badges_per_minute": 0.02,
"total_users": 8526,
"new_active_users": 4,
"api_revision": "2013.10.9.8200"
}
],
"quota_remaining": 9981,
"quota_max": 10000,
"has_more": false
}
Note that questions_per_minute
is 0, making it impossible to scale up. answers_per_minute
isn't much better at 0.01. Would it make sense to add precision to the values returned in these fields? Is more precision available?