Anybody notice weird stats this week?

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Anybody notice weird stats this week?

Particularly July 6/7?

HughMungus

2:56 pm on Jul 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

HUGE jump in reported pageviews (10X jump in one day, though my CTR stayed about the same).

richmondsteve

3:13 am on Jul 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

And what does an investigation of your web server logs reveal? No big jump for me (please, please, let's not turn this into a "mine went up", "mine went down" thread).

HughMungus

10:15 pm on Jul 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

Thanks, but I figured out the reason for the big jump. A banner ad I'd submitted was approved and entereed rotation.

Sunflux

1:59 am on Jul 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

Gee, where was that banner ad? :-)

rezash

6:16 am on Jul 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

same as here!
for 5 days Page impressions are 10 times more without any big change in site log or CTR.
Also I noticed that when loading ads the site is slow and it reload itself.
any idea why?
-thanks

jomaxx

6:25 am on Jul 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Re weird stats: My stats have always been quite steady, although subject to normal statistical variation. But in the past few days I've had a couple of mid-day shocks where the CTR was either much higher or much lower than usual.

By the end of the day the numbers were back to numbingly normal in each case. Makes me think that impressions and clicks/revenue are not being tracked in sync any more.

P.S. rezash, sounds like you have a problem. Maybe a Javascript problem - possibly "framebust" code? Nonetheless I don't see how you could end up with 10X the impressions that way. I would expect people to simply give up and leave after several reloads.

richmondsteve

11:21 am on Jul 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

jomaxx wrote:

Makes me think that impressions and clicks/revenue are not being tracked in sync any more.

Some of us here (me included) have been under that impression since soon after AdSense was launched. I've learned not to put much weight in the stats for a given day until several days after the end of that day.

howiejs

1:53 pm on Jul 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

I agree
I just wait 2 days - as I care about the channels

rezash

10:35 pm on Jul 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

I asked google and they found a javascript error.
Here is their response:

The ad code in the HTML source code contains the line:
google_alternate_ad_url = "#FFFFFF" ;

when it should contain:
google_alternate_color = "FFFFFF";

Furthermore, if we had yet to crawl and index your pages, public service
ads may appear. Therefore, when the ad code would try to display your
alternate ad url "#FFFFFF", it would try to visit an invalid HTML anchor
causing the page to reload. This constant refreshing is what mostly caused the sudden increase in impressions.

-Reza