Difference in Earnings Estimate; Firefox vs Internet Explorer

[tim222]

A few minutes ago I opened today's AdSense earnings report in Firefox. I then remembered that around 20 minutes before that, I had already opened it in IE8. So went over to that page and was going to close it, but then noticed that the earnings amount was two cents higher. That didn't make sense because it was opened earlier. So I flipped back and forth, and this is what I found:

All stats were the same except the estimated earnings. I refreshed both pages. Same thing. In internet explorer, the earnings are two cents higher. This number is a very tiny miniscule fraction of the total amount, but something seems odd about this. It seems to indicate that the estimated earnings number is calculated rather than a fixed number in a database.

Has anyone noticed this before? Or maybe it's just a fluke.

[martinibuster]

Hey, this is interesting! :)

I just did a side by side comparison and noticed a one cent difference. The difference was in the adsense for content. AdSense for search matched.

Anyone else?

[HuskyPup]

Anyone else?

Nope, mine are exactly the same.

[rajivatre]

In my case IE was higher by 3 cents.

It seems to indicate that the estimated earnings number is calculated rather than a fixed number in a database.

I did not understand this. Even if it is calculated it will be calculated in background. What browser has to do with it?

Thanks
Rajiv

[tim222]

What browser has to do with it?

Firefox and IE could each use a slightly different math calculation process. Although if that's the case then it seems like the difference should be plus or minus one cent at most, not two or three.

[martinibuster]

I would assume that the calculation is done at the Googleplex. All the browser does is render HTML, to display the data being streamed to it. The data should be the same but it's not.

[bwnbwn]

I am afraid to look as we had that monster click dump and income surge so I won't look. Could be IE has been fooling me all along and FF might tell me the truth.

[martinibuster]

LOL. Then don't look at your earnings with Opera. At the moment Opera is displaying estimated earnings that are 10 cents lower than IE, and 15 cents lower than FireFox.

[rajivatre]

I would assume that the calculation is done at the Googleplex. All the browser does is render HTML, to display the data being streamed to it. The data should be the same but it's not.

Exactly this is what i meant to say. No calculation is done at browser level so ideally in any browser the earnings should show same. So this is really getting interesting as to why browsers are showing different earnings.
Today as the google day is near to end it is showing IE is more by 6 cents than FF.

Thanks
Rajiv

[nrep]

Firefox and IE could each use a slightly different math calculation process

Math's is exact, so I'd be quite worried if that was the reason for the difference ;)

I suspect that it is simply down to the Adsense interface re-building the total for a new login session.