In open site explorer, why are subdomain stats different to domain stats?

[Chammy]

Hello there

I have just compared some sites in Open Site Explorer.

The page domain, subdomain and domain stats are all different. I get the difference between page and domain stats. But why are the subdomain stats different? There are no subdomains on the site so I expected them to be the same.

What is my confused brain missing???

Many thanks

Wendy

[KeriMorgret]

Actually, WWW is considered a subdomain. If you have some links going to domain.com and some going to www.domain.com that would account for the different metrics.

[Chammy]

Thanks Keri - that's it. We have the domain.com 301 redirecting to www.domain.com so guess we have it covered anyway

Cheers