Hello Phil, You just can't make a valid performance comparison between the Sandbox and Production system. There's a completely different set of SOAP servers, the backend datastores are on a completely different scale, and the Sandbox has a number of key components mocked out.
Cheers, -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team On Jan 31, 11:12 am, Phil <5000...@googlemail.com> wrote: > HI Jeff, > Thank you for your reply. > Can I read into what you said at the start that production performance > will be higher than the sandbox? > > I was using lists for text ads and keywords (also using the checks > first as advised), however in the case of adgroups I was adding them > one buy one (then the ads and criteria to each). > The cost turns out to be too high for the volume I indent (and it's > very slow) so I have changed the model. The way I plan to manage the > adgroups now is different and should be much cheaper (and faster, > sandbox or not). > Thanks for your advice, good titbits for any model. > > Phil. > > On Jan 28, 6:10 pm, AdWords API Advisor <adwordsapiadvi...@google.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Phil, > > > The Sandbox is not intended for load testing or for getting an > > accurate sense of how quickly operations will complete in the > > Production environment. I don't think you can read very much into > > Production performance one way or another from it. > > > It is, however, a good place to test various strategies for creating > > and managing large account structures. I'd recommend that you make > > sure you're using the various batch methods when creating your account > > structure (e.g. addAdGroupList(), addAds(), addCritieria()) and do > > your operations in bulk if you're currently doing them one at a time. > > You should be able to add all your new ad groups under the same > > campaign in one or more calls to addAdGroupList(), and ditto for the > > ads and criteria under the same ad group with one call to addAds() and > > addCriteria(). We don't publicize any hard limits for the total number > > of items you can pass into each method, but to keep things manageable > > I'd limit it to a couple of hundred per call. For the ads and > > criteria, I'd recommend you check them in advance for policy errors > > (checkAds() and checkCriteria()) so that one bad input doesn't prevent > > your batch from going through. > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff Posnick, AdWords API Team > > > On Jan 28, 10:16 am, Phil <5000...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > I have done some searching but can't find any info on if the sandbox > > > is any slower than the 'real' Adwords API. Please just repoint me if I > > > have missed something blatant. > > > I can't find any docs on relative speed. > > > > I am currently averaging 2 seconds per adgroup (with keywords and text > > > ads). Which means the 2000 or so adgroups I will need to push could > > > take over an hour. Will this drasticly speed up using the 'real' API? > > > > Kind Regards > > > Phil. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to adwords-api@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
