# Discrepancy between about page statistics and exported reports
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-between-about-page-statistics-and-exported-reports/116623
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-between-about-page-statistics-and-exported-reports/116623 "2019-05-01T22:12:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2019, 10:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-between-about-page-statistics-and-exported-reports/116623/1 "2019-05-01T22:12:11Z")
I’m not entirely sure if this is a bug, but I’m seeking a bit more information about how the reported statistics work.
On our instance (julialang), the `/about` page shows some summary statistics, including the total number of posts. In our case, that displays 122k posts over the entire site history. But when I export `/admin/reports/posts` over the entire history of the site and sum the daily counts, I get 103k. This is a discrepancy of 20%. Which number is right?
All the other summary statistics are either spot on or slightly under their respective reports and within 1% — I imagine that’s just due to slightly stale data which is just fine. Why would this one be so far off? We _very rarely_ delete posts and I’m quite certain we don’t have 20% deleted posts. Are there any other reasons why this would be different? Edit: perhaps the `/about` page stats include post _edits_ in its count?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-between-about-page-statistics-and-exported-reports/116623/2 "2019-05-01T23:26:52Z")
Probably personal messages, which are not public posts, but _are_ posts.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2022, 5:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-between-about-page-statistics-and-exported-reports/116623/3 "2022-08-20T17:13:56Z")
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2023, 2:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discrepancy-between-about-page-statistics-and-exported-reports/116623/4 "2023-01-18T14:25:39Z")