I'm putting together the annual Most Popular News Items of the Year. This is based on page views of each news item.
Usually, I simply order them in descending order by view count. However, this favours older news items (those from the first part of the year) over newer ones which haven't had the same time to rack up the views.
The obvious - and easy - solution is just to count page views in the first month since the item was posted. Unfortunately, I don't have that data. All I have is post date and total view count.
So, is there any valid way I can mathematically adjust the numbers to account for age? I considered simply dividing by the number of months the item has been available, but that has the opposite effect and favours newer items over older ones.
Usually, I simply order them in descending order by view count. However, this favours older news items (those from the first part of the year) over newer ones which haven't had the same time to rack up the views.
The obvious - and easy - solution is just to count page views in the first month since the item was posted. Unfortunately, I don't have that data. All I have is post date and total view count.
So, is there any valid way I can mathematically adjust the numbers to account for age? I considered simply dividing by the number of months the item has been available, but that has the opposite effect and favours newer items over older ones.