How Accurate is the WMT Reporting?

[Propools]

I'm wondering just how accurate or current the Google Webmaster Rools Reporting is.

I've submitted a revised sitemap to Google over a week ago and have yet to have the reporting reflect the higher numer of "Total URL's" but I do see a substantial reduction in "Indexed URL's". Prior to this re-submission we had about 85% of the URL's indexed.

In Webmaster Tools Reporting, it took about 4 days for any URL's to come up indexed after the re-submission. Since then the number of Indexed URL's really hasn't changed much.

The only thing I did different to the sitemap was add about 200 URL's to it, bringing it to just a bit over 2000 URL's, so I don't think that would be the problem. But what do I know. I'm just a marketing guy. :)

Why might there be the delay and reduction?

[g1smd]

Different bits of WMT data refresh at different times, and with different timescales.

That is, something in there might update daily, and something else might update weekly.

[Propools]

Weekly. Wow. I think that's the case on a lot of stuff we're seeing. We don't usually see page changes in the SERP's for a week.

I just noticed too that our new feed to G-Base got accepted. I got an email notification of the number of items processed and the number inserted. They were the same, which is great. But......When I go to our Base account, it shows that the feed has not been processed yet; even when I click on "details" about the feed. It's funny how we would get the email but not have "real-time" updates on the account pages. Whether those pages be WMT or Base.

Anyway, just thought it peculiar. "Jack Bauer" gets real time updates, can't we too?