Hi, This is expected behavior. The statistics in a report can be corrected if more data comes in regarding invalid clicks, etc. The values are fairly stable after about 3 hours after the close of the day, but you may want to re-download the report a day later to get the most accurate data.
https://adwords.google.com/support/aw/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=14052 Best, - Eric Koleda, AdWords API Team On Mar 15, 9:51 am, TompiT <thomas.pit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, I forgot to tell you that API version was under v13. > > Thanks, > > On 15 mar, 13:09, TompiT <thomas.pit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > At the moment we are using the report service to download keyword > > performance from the previous day. Each day a cron job starts at 00:30 > > GMT+1 that download and import the report in our database. > > > We noticed some small differences between results from the API and > > Adwords web GUI. For example on the 2010-03-05, the API has returned > > 342 clicks on one of our customer account and the Adwords web GUI > > shows 346 clicks. By re-fecthing the import from that day, without any > > change in our code, the API reports returns the correct number of > > cliks (346). This goes both way as we found some days were the number > > of clicks reported was lowered several days later. > > > We are wondering how this could happen. It seems like there is a > > manual process involved in click de-duplication/validation. Could > > somebody shed some light on this ? This is very important for us as > > this would require us to put in place weekly/monthly reports if we > > know the data are evolving. > > > Thanks in advance, -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ Have you migrated to v200909 yet? The v13 sunset is on April 22, 2010. Also find us on our blog and discussion group: http://adwordsapi.blogspot.com http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
