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New Adsense channels reporting code

         

potentialgeek

11:43 am on Jan 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

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"Your report is in progress. Please wait here until the report completes. This page will refresh automatically every few seconds until your report is ready."

What do you make of this new reporting scheme? Why was it changed? I'm seeing this notice for daily stats on the full channels report. It's not as if it's the response for all channels for five years, i.e., no great load on the servers.

"... refresh automatically every few seconds until your report is ready" sounds rather odd, like, "there's a bug here, which doesn't work all the time, so we'll keep trying, because we can't get it right the first time."

I just don't know what they are trying to accomplish with this change, and any change they attempt for stats reporting makes me nervous!

p/g

Brett_Tabke

12:04 pm on Jan 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

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It is processor intensive and they are farming the job out to a network machine for job processing. PayPal and ebay do the exact same thing with their reporting.

guru5571

2:39 am on Feb 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

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yep, I've noticed too. I'm now often getting that the report could not be completed fairly often as well.

I guess they are trying to cut costs and streamline.

europeforvisitors

3:02 am on Feb 1, 2008 (gmt 0)



I guess they are trying to cut costs and streamline.

It's more likely that they're simply trying to keep up with a growing number of publishers, pages, and clicks. 4Q 2007 network revenues were up 12% over 3Q 2007 and 37% over the same quarter in 2006.

fredw

8:41 am on Feb 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

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I guess we're checking our stats too frequently!

I don't like the new reports. In the old report shown by channel, you could click on a channel to see that channel only, then easily change the reporting date and regenerate the report, ie., I have a preset report called "Today" which is all url channels by channel for today. In that report, I could easily click on one of the channels, change the reporting date to "This month" and regenerate, to compare that url channel's trends over the month.

Can't do that anymore. The channels are no longer links. Now, I have to deselect all the channels but one in that upper table before I can regenerate from all channels daily to one channel monthly.