I am trying to query the yearly total number of questions that have the tag browserify. I just started using the API today. To sanity check my understanding, I am checking the data from the site against the data from the API. I can see that there are questions tagged from this year like this one and that one.

The site reports that there are 1491 total questions tagged browserify.

When I limit the dates to this year, I get no results. So I tried querying for questions from before this year, and I get 1491 total questions with the following query created using the try it page:

https://api.stackexchange.com/docs/tags#fromdate=2008-01-01&todate=2015-01-01
&order=asc&sort=popular&inname=browserify&filter=!bNKX0pf0ks0Yi6&site=stackoverflow

{
  "items": [
    {
      "count": 9,
      "name": "browserify-rails"
    },
    {
      "count": 90,
      "name": "browserify-shim"
    },
    {
      "count": 1491,
      "name": "browserify"
    }
  ],
  "has_more": false,
  "quota_max": 10000,
  "quota_remaining": 9973,
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 30,
  "total": 3,
  "type": "tag"
}

The information I am getting back from the API seems to be telling me that there are no questions from this year that were tagged with "browserify". Yet I can find questions from this year with the "browserify" tag.

I cannot see where I am going wrong in my usage of the API.

My question is different to "How to get all questions with a specific tag between certain dates" because the total numbers I see do not match the data I see on the site. I have no issues with paging.