J, In the past I have seen performance data change due to offline analysis for invalid clicks. What I am referring to is documented at the following URL, and is really more of an AdWords policy detail. Depending on the time-span of data you use for analysis, you may be interested:
http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/ads/adtrafficquality/index.html Jason On Monday, November 5, 2012 10:35:58 AM UTC-5, Paul Matthews wrote: > > Hi J, > > For certainty (providing you're not requesting data in the exceptions > list<https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2544985>), > you should wait until "three hours after midnight in the account’s local > time zone". > > *Example:* > > My account's local timezone is GMT. So todays (2012-11-05) > definitive statistics would be available tomorrow (2012-11-06) at 3am GMT. > > > *Example Continuation:* > > Any query, I do today (2012-11-05) after 3am GMT, for data from yesterday > (2012-11-04) or older, should be correct. > > > I hope this helps to answer your question. > > Cheers, > > - Paul, AdWords API Team. > > On Thursday, 1 November 2012 17:27:14 UTC, J wrote: >> >> I've read this help page on data freshness for AdWords: >> https://support.google.com/adwords/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2544985 >> >> Wanted to confirm my understanding: >> >> - My report query is for statistics such as clicks, impressions, >> conversions, cost. I'm querying for hourly data by using "Date" & >> "HourOfDay" as segments in my selector. >> - Does this mean there's a 3 hour delay in data accuracy? In other >> words, data for the most recent 3 hours returned in the report may not be >> complete/accurate? >> - Does this mean data older than 3 hours is accurate? So for >> example, hourly data that I receive for yesterday should be accurate and >> there's no need for me to re-query for results for yesterday? >> >> I'm trying to come up with the proper algorithm to continuously retrieve >> report data for our AdWords account. I start by querying historical data >> until the beginning of our AdWords account, then I switch to cron job mode >> where I continuously query for new/updated data. What I'm trying to figure >> out is the proper 'startDate' and 'endDate' to use. To be safe, should I >> always just query for last 2 days just in case there's some system wide >> delay? >> >> Any insight or tips here would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> J >> >> -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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
