gstatic.com into Sites that generate traffic and clicks

[dolcevita]

I see in the last days gstatic.com under the pages that generate traffic and clicks. Does anyone know what this is about, or have I already missed a discussion about it? Should I add gstatic.com to the approved site?

[CommandDork]

I started seeing that domain show up only after I trialed the DNS pre-fetching stuff. I've since removed the prefetching but trickle traffic from that domain rolls in still (I'm assuming from caches).

From what I can tell, it has something to do with Google so I *think* its legit - but ya, for me, it was the prefetch testing that seemed to trigger it.

[Breathofair33]

Same for me. I actually recently redirected old AdSense approved domains to a new adsense domain and thought it was caching those old sites with income.

[dolcevita]

CommandDork:
I also had gstatic in prefetch. I just came back from vacation today and immediately removed that line.

[CommandDork]

Ya, even now I still get gstatic.com showing up as a domain making me money. Didnt even approve it as one of my own domains so I dunno.

[dolcevita]

Do you still use anything else in prefetch, preconnect or preload or you have everything removed?

[dolcevita]

And almost forgot. Do you use CloudFlare?

[CommandDork]

Ya.

[dolcevita]

This smells like CF to me. I only removed gstatic.com from the prefetch list, but no change. Gstatic.com is still generating clicks and views.

Not much, but even that 2%-3% is a pity, because they are not counted.

On the other hand, it is impossible to add gstatic.com to the list of approved websites, since ads.txt is now required for validation, so CF remains, in my opinion, the only cause of this problem.

[not2easy]

Gstatic.com is a Google domain that is used to deliver common static files like css and js files, it is used to help speed up delivery. It may be involved in AdSense .js file delivery so if it is shown in the path and you get paid, I would ignore it.

[dolcevita]

The problem, as far as I can see, is that Gstatic RPM and CPC are not calculated with the results of approved websites.

[LucasPerez]

I just got gstatic in Adsense on my sites and it has a click
and searching for the why, has directed me to this page.:

[nanoservices.com.ng...]

Could it be an Adsense audit?

[dolcevita]

Yesterday I removed the gstatic.com preconnect line from the code, and today I decided to remove all the other preconnect and prefetch lines from codes in the hope that this is the reason, but it is definitely not.

I can only conclude that gstatic clicks are related to CloudFlare. It's not much, but why 2$-3$ every day to go to gstatic?

I would like to add gstatic to my web pages, but this is no longer possible, since verification with ads.txt is required.

[LucasPerez]

Thank you @dolcevita for sharing your experience.

I have been able to find out that now Gstatic is actually added to Adsense sites due to the GDPR, since it is given as a url within the site templates, which is why it should not be removed, and in fact, in this way it enters into consent of the GDPR.

[dolcevita]

@LucasPerez
But so far i can see RPM, CPC, Clicks etc...
are not calculated with the results of approved websites.

[LucasPerez]

@dolcevita, yes, you are right, I think everything will be seen when January 2024 arrives and Adsense has to eliminate the pink notice, whatever it is, there will be no going back.

[dolcevita]

Thanks LucasPerez,

As far as I understand, you are saying that gstastic, within our own websites, which generate revenue, is a conscious insertion by Adsense and that it is all related to GDPR and January 24?

Now, if that is true and if you are right (although I do not know on what basis you have this knowledge), I still do not understand why RPM, CPC, Clicks etc... from Gstatic do not contribute or are not calculated with final earnings. It makes no sense to me that it was knowingly, with a certain intention inserted by Adsense to the detriment of the publisher, because it shows a certain profit, and that is not calculated.

To be honest, the loss is not negligible if I look at my own report and see that the pageRPM is between $50 - 60$ and there are about 15-25 clicks every day, which is about 3%-4% of total earnings.

It may be negligible on a daily basis, but on a monthly basis it is a big loss. I just looked at the reports and for me, gstatic has 'earned' $175 in the past 30 days.

btw
This time below when Gstatic appeared for the first time i was on vacation.

Gstatic first seen in report on August 7 with 0 clicks
August 8 = 1 clicks
August 9 = 2 clicks
August 10 = 13 clicks etcetc...

[dolcevita]

One question to all who see gstatic into their report. Are your websites behind CloudFlare? I would like to be 100% sure of it is related to some kind of CF user setting or CF own setting or not.

[LucasPerez]

@dolcevita I also saw Gstatic in August, just when they updated the GDPR notice again

gstatic.com? -Google sources-

gstatic.com and googleusercontent.com are Google domains.
They are part of a complex network used by all the services offered by Google, from Gmail, Gmaps, Google+, Blogger, Google Earth, etc.
They intervene in the synchronization and transfer of data every time we do the slightest operation, whether it is a search, entering any site or using any of the services.

cloudflare.net?

CloudFlare is another of the large CND networks on the Internet, which additionally protects and filters the content of thousands of websites, including ours.
Any connection to our NorfiPC site goes through its servers, protecting us and our readers from malware and other current Internet phenomena such as phishing, spam, injection of malicious code, hacking, DDoS attacks, etc.
Cloudflare has a large network of servers scattered around the world

[No5needinput]

@dolcevita My AdSense account is also showing gstatic.com clicks and earnings. I have a dedicated server and I don't use, or ever have used, CloudFlare or any service like it.

[dolcevita]

Thank you @No5needinput and @LucasPerez

Now the crucial question is whether we can monetize gstatic.com by adding it to the list of our websites?

Namely, it's apparently miraculously there, thanks to Google/Adsense, but even though it's making money, I don't see any benefit from it, because it's not on the list of approved websites.

Trying to add it seems useless, since we do not control gstatic.com and cannot verify it with ads.txt.

Has anyone try contacting Adsense regarding this issue? For me, it is a not so small amount of money on a monthly basis that goes to waste.

[LucasPerez]

@dolcevita starting today September 18th. Gstatic is no longer there, it is no longer on my sites.

About your question:
"Now the crucial question is whether we can monetize gstatic.com by adding it to the list of our websites."

-Gstatic cannot be added to your sites (Gstatic es de Google), Adsense only does it probably because of the fonts or images found on your page that belong to Gstatic.

It does not belong as a "site for you", Adsense is doing statistics and has set it up for experiments.

[dolcevita]

This morning I looked at the earnings per website and it seems that the gstatic.com earnings have also started to be calculated together with the earnings from other websites :).

Can anyone else check with themselves?

[CommandDork]

More and more gstatic.com earnings and pageviews being reported in my dailies. Kinda makes overall reporting in Adsense a little bit useless if this domain is siphoning data like that; cant really see which site is contributing to these gstatic.com earnings.