About Today Report

[sorry chou]

Hi:

Does Report can get realtime data? when I use report to get host todays pageviews, clicks and earning, but all lower than using Adsense website "https://www.google.com/adsense/app#viewreports", how to solve it?

thanks.

[galeksic]

I believe you would prefer the official response, but I'd like to join with few comments and I hope you don't mind! :)

Yes, I too see reports are sometimes slightly different, but not very much and when I refresh (several times in few minutes) www.google.com/adsense home page, I can see the very same, so I am considering today reports as what they are - estimations, and real-time data.

It's not so notable when the traffic is very low. Also, I don't have any idea how AdSense works, but (to be honest) I wouldn't be very surprised if real-time, estimated values depend on which node was queried.

If your reports show much lower and consistent values than the AdSense home page, then I'd suggest you to check your code and see if there is any caching on your side. (Cache is good - don't remove it, just decrease refresh time to some safe value.)

And I don't think it could be the problem, but it wont hurt if you can see & check in your logs what are you sending as startDate and endDate.

[Sérgio Gomes (AdSense API Team)]

Hi Sorry, Gorran,

Any data you might get for "today" is not finalized and subject to changes, so you shouldn't be relying on it for any sort of meaningful analysis.

That said, if you still choose to use it, you should note that there are several levels of caching, so if you're working in small timeframes (say, under an hour), you may get cached results rather than live ones. Gorran's suggestion should help with client-side caching, but there will most likely still be caching at the API service level.

Cheers,

Sérgio

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