Different number of analyzed elements

[yael]

Why does Malwarebytes always shows different number of elements analyzed? Sometimes it can be 6000 something but sometimes 8000 

[alvarnell]

That seems rather wide spread to me, but in checking mine I see it varies from 100,000 to 87,000 recently.

I would think that it would normally depend on a combination of how many files you have in the target areas being scanned (some of which are temporary) and how many signatures are contained in the protection database. The reduction in my case was probably due to the removal of some signatures for malware that has become extinct in order to speed up scan times.