Stat Updates...

[chadf]

I don't really understand why the stats update like they do. The delay for me is usually 30 - 45 minutes, sometimes it has even been 3-4 hours, even more, before stats are updated. How can there possibly be a delay when everything to do with computers is 'instant'. The information on clicks hits the database via the adsense program, gets processed via the program as well then it displays. But why the long wait. Is there actually a google team that glances over all new clicks every 15-30 minutes or something? Are their servers so slow that it can only process so many clicks at a time?

Sometimes it scares me when I login at like 3pm to only see 19 clicks and it stays that way allll the way until 6pm - 7pm and then it jumps up to the usual 90-100 clicks.

If I could request a feature it would def be instant update on statistics.

[ken_b]

Stats have at times run 24 hours or more behind in the past.

A couple hours is relatively quick.

[ve3cnu]

Really large systems present many unique challenges. I have some experience with Enterprise software and can attest to the complexity of some of the systems.

[berto]

Is it not miraculous that Google produces SERPs so blazingly fast? Besides that, they are also to generate publisher stats in real time? And channel stats, too?

Remember, also, that Google has to review some stats (subject them to statistical analysis?) before declaring them valid and posting them in publisher reports. Clicks, for example.

[Powdork]

The reason the different fields on the report page update independently is intentional so you and I can't easily figure out payout percentages and individual click costs (or other stuf they don't want us to know about). In order to achieve this they must delay some stats and possibly even credit some clicks (not revenue) before they occur. The delay must vary randomly as well.

[chadf]

Good point...

[topr8]

>> How can there possibly be a delay when everything to do with computers is 'instant'.

remember this is not actually the case, most people are not pushing their computers very hard so things appear to happen instantly - eg. there is not a queue of tasks waiting to be done.

additionally with things like google serps appearing instantly, remember the db is possibly not being queried each time, results are cached and reused.