Google stuck again?

Stats not updated for 3 hours

[Leva]

Can I express just a bit of frustration with this?

The last time the stats were stuck, I never did get a clickdump. Basically, I got cheated out of quite a bit of money because I can see in my stats I was sending traffic to Adsense referrals. It was a not-insignificant loss.

-- Leva

[Hobbs]

Sorry Leva, AdSense reporting is not stuck.

[Leva]

Still no updates on my end, though. And I'm getting tons of traffic.

Different data center maybe?

[Leva]

Meh. Clicks finally dumped. Referrals, not so much -- they're still stuck where they were hours ago.

[farmboy]

Basically, I got cheated out of quite a bit of money because I can see in my stats I was sending traffic to Adsense referrals. It was a not-insignificant loss.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if the AdSense stats showed you were sending traffic, doesn't that mean the stats weren't stuck?

FarmBoy

[poodwaddle]

Leva, are you using a reporting service?
I recently signed up for one that uses an embedded javascript to identify when adsense gets clicked. It has usually varied by 5-10% of adsense reports. Today, though, it is reporting a huge jump in clicks but adsense is not. I don't know if adsense is behind or if this reporting service is messing up. Has anyone here had similar experience or know why there would be this variation?

[Leva]

Actually, I'm looking at referrals.

I have a site that's a typein for Mozilla's site, though the site's main focus is not technology. (My domain was registered in 1998 -- just pure dumb luck.) Being no dummy, I have firefox referrals on the main page.

I have a very consistent rate of typeins that go download the browser. Every day. For the last two years. It's rock solid and the stats never change unless there's an issue on Google's end.

Today, the CTR on the referrals is the same. Traffic to the index page is the same. Conversions? Way off. I'm at 50% of what they should be. Google is apparently having issues recording conversions. This has happened a multiple times in the last month and I never get a click dump later on the referrals, they just "lose" the conversions I'm sending them. This is on top of the Firefox referral outage earlier this month.

Very annoying, particularly since I'd estimate it's a three-figure loss between the two issues. Plus whatever I'm losing from Google showing referrals that I do not want, have not selected, and which they are occasionally showing even though I've selected the "no substitutions!" selection when generating my ad code. I have had ZERO conversions from the new referral 2.0 products when they substitute them for my Firefox referrals, but I cannot get them to stop showing.

Sigh. I suppose I shouldn't complain too much; Google's been good to me and the revenue from the referrals, overall, is quite nice. I just have a *twitchy* reaction to losing that much money over their system glitch.

For what it's worth, contextual ads seem to have recovered, clickdumped, they're back to normal. (I'm an Adsense API site, and I pay 99% to my writers, so this is revenue for my writers, not me ... it actually upsets me more if *they* get cheated than if I do!)

-- Leva

[edited by: Leva at 6:46 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2007]

[ann]

Either Google is fairly constipated today or something is wrong. I am showing only a third of what I usually do.

Ann

[frakilk]

Thank you Ann, it's nice to hear that someone else in drowning in the AdSense swamp today :-P

[netmeg]

I dunno; I'm having my best day of this week so far.

[Scurramunga]

Stats seem sluggish here but I think it's less to do with sluggish stat counts than anything else.

[cmendla]

I'm seeing something weird. out of 14 sites, one site is running a bit above average and all the others are way below usual.

Problem is that these aren't high traffic sites (yet) so my results may not be that significant. At any rate, the stats do appear a little odd today.

cg

[Green_Grass]

Leva .

Are you seeing this..

[webmasterworld.com...]

[oddsod]

Across multiple sites in multiple accounts I'm seeing glitches with Google stats for yesterday. Stats for a few of the sites show no glitches, the others show impressions/CTR not matching other tracking, and earnings about 20% below normal deviation for a Wednesday. And, no it's not referral smartpricing as I don't do referrals.

Affected sites seem to be seeing some sort of earnings dump this morning pushing eCPM to silly levels. But, I'm afraid, I don't believe today's end of day increase will make up for yesterday's shortfall. It's also my belief that whatever the glitch publishers as a whole would have lost out yesterday.

Please don't give me any lessons on how Adsense stats work. :)