Monday Jan 4, 2009 stats stuck ?

earnings not moving

[indias next no1]

Impressions only moving, but no movement in earnings, ecpm, and ctr for the past 2 hours, any one seeing the same on their account ?

[indias next no1]

any one ?

[rajivatre]

I think this is specific to indian publishers or indian sites. I am observing this very low ctr ecpm same impressions (which looks like stats stuck or something wrong with stats) for last 3-4 days.
But no one is complaining here. So I guess may be this is restricted to india focused sites or publishers.

Thanks
Rajiv

[rajivatre]

Checked stats, Now it looks like suddenly advertisers have started pouring their money.
Earnings up 20-30% for this time of the day. If this trend continues then todays few hours earning will cover last 2-3 days average daily earnings.
My guess is advertisers have stopped or slowed down their campaign for the long weekend starting from 1st jan. People are not out to buy in this period. Just a wild guess.
Rajiv

[HuskyPup]

Not just India, something seems to be stuck or broken somewhere since yesterday was my worst day since Xmas 2008...yes, 2008. Both CTR and eCPM were down 50% compared to the previous 2 weeks and today so far, and it is early yet, I am down by another 50% to 25% of normal.

Budgets, people returning to work? I don't know other than it's pointless having those ads there at the moment, I'll see how the day pans out.

[indias next no1]

thanks for the replies

[nomis5]

At the moment my earnings look down significantly for today, maybe 50% lower. But it's early and this is the first look I've had so far today. Hopefully a click dump will come to the rescue later on.

[Karma]

stuck here too (UK).

(ASA - would be nice to have a 'last updated' message)

[rajivatre]

@Husky: I always look at your post for stats stuck and if your post is there then I am assured that something is wrong in the system. But for last few days there was no message from you or any other member so I thought may be its only me or india specifically.

Anyways stats moving slowly now.

Rajiv

[johnnie]

I can confirm there's at least some delay in click reporting. CTR is anomalously low.

[taps]

Same here - CTR is quite low.

[HuskyPup]

Someone please buy them some new rubber bands:-)

My second biggest site is running an eCPM of 0.02! Something's well and truly fubard for me.

@rajivatre - I hadn't posted over the weekend since I'd noticed all through the Xmas and New Year period that stats were running very behind but always caught up by the start of a new Google Day however yesterday was very different at 50% down and now a total collapse with just a few thousand Page Impressions, which look way behind, but also hardly any clicks whatsoever...and I mean not even a small bottle of beer earnings:-(

[jetteroheller]

Today is frustrating compared to Dec 25th to Jan 3rd

Comparing the same time of last Monday

20% more impressions
13% less clicks
15% less earnings

[andrew867]

earning is up today by 40% than last these days.

[maximillianos]

CTR very low today here as well.

[HuskyPup]

My major site is moving now, still down but at least impressions and earnings are there. My second biggest site has a few more impressions on its adlinks however no further earnings with the CTR showing as 0.14% and my header is showing zeros right across the page apart from a few thousand impressions!

I've never seen that before.

[WolfLover]

Today is awful! Very low CTR and eCPM. I really hope there is a stats delay.

[WolfLover]

ASA, can you advise if there is a stats delay please?

[HuskyPup]

can you advise if there is a stats delay please?

If there isn't then it's nearly totally fubard...my second biggest site's AdLinks clicks haven't moved since this morning, I'm now on 0.09% CTR!

[jetteroheller]

About 90 minutes ago a click dump, now EPC halfed

A drop of my EPC in this time period to the half is something very unusual

[jetteroheller]

About 90 minutes ago a click dump, now EPC halfed

A drop of my EPC in this time period to the half is something very unusual

[purplecape]

Nothing stuck for me, and EPC has returned to normal after being down over the holidays...

[HuskyPup]

Phew...that's looking a bit better, still not back to normal however definitely a dump, or should that be a major movement? :-)

[johnnie]

Hmm... Appears today is just a disappointing day. Oh well, time to move on.

[rajivatre]

Somewhat click dump here at night (India) and today morning stats look better.
Almost getting to the level of the week before Year End Holiday.
Rajiv

[benallos]

This is again a disappointing day ... very disappointing .. and also yesterday

[taps]

Yesterday was not too good. Maybe some customers had their campaings running just up to Jan, 4th. My CTR went down by 25%.

This day doesn't start too good either.

[jetteroheller]

Maybe it's a new trend, that Saturdays are better than Mondays.

Now is Sunday at me always the best day of the week.

[HuskyPup]

I ended up with a just ok day even though I had good traffic etc...I feel they lost a lot of data somewhere Sunday/Monday since the fall was far in excess of normal fluctuations and especialy so considering how firm and consistent the previous week or so had been, for me that is.

I suppose the question ought to be "Should Google tell us when they've had a systems/data failure"?

As publishers, and many computing geeks, we could accept that as part and parcel of computers, however could Google shareholders who obviously want Google to earn as much as they can but any technology/equipment failure may be seen as a sign of weakness?

[taps]

Sunday is my best day too. Saturday is worst most of the time. However: holidays, new year and all that stuff messes up all statistics.

My CTR problem seems to be self made. We have a layer ad which leaves an empty white space after closing. Thus adsense ads cannot be seen completely. We removed the layer and CTR seems to recover a bit.