I have two phpBB sites with some strange weights. Both are currently PR0 and have 5 text links running. One has 90 pages in G and a weight of 72. The other has 38 pages in G and has a weight of 273. Is this normal? Or is something wrong somewhere.
I'm not sure on this but perhaps the API uses a 'real' PR value and the one is 0.1 whilst theo other is 0.8 ??? And did you get the page counts from site: or the API or another SE?
The API most likely lists different page totals for your sites than what google.com does. We've seen this before and it is normal. The API pretty much always has different page totals than google.com.
These are some good points. It would explain some other things as well. I got the counts from site:. My two main sites, the directory and the shopping site, are PR4 and PR0 respectively. The former has 154 pages, the latter has 301. The PR4 site's weight is less than half of what it was, and the PR0 site's weight has gone way up and is now about 200 higher than the PR4 site. In fact, the weight from the PR4 site is down so much that my total weight has lost about 3000. It'll be interesting to see what happens to my PR next update.