Hello Devesh,
This is a product-level behavior, not specific to the API. I believe, ">90%" means most of the impressions are "lost" anyway and the actual number is not very useful. It is unlikely this will be changed in the near future. -Danial, AdWords API Team. On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 1:20:19 AM UTC+4, Devesh Parekh wrote: > > Thanks, Danial. > > While I might understand not reporting this metric precisely with very > small or zero actual impressions, the "> 90%" number seems unrelated to the > number of impressions reported. For example, I have one row that shows 1 > impression and "66.67%" rank lost impression share. I have another row with > 1702 impressions and "> 90%" rank lost impression share. > > The "> 90%" number seems to displayed if and only if the rank lost > impression share is above 90%. I don't see any rows that have precise rank > lost impression share greater than 90. I'm trying to understand why AdWords > will happily report "88.89%" lost impression share (as one example I've > seen) but won't tell me anything like "90.11%" lost impression share. > > -- > Devesh > > > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:20 AM, Danial Klimkin < > adwordsapiad...@google.com <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello Devesh, >> >> >> We do not plan to expose the raw impression numbers on search results in >> the AdWords API. As you mentioned, this metric can't be reported precisely >> with very small or zero actual impressions. >> >> >> -Danial, AdWords API Team. >> >> >> On Saturday, July 27, 2013 2:59:49 AM UTC+4, Devesh Parekh wrote: >>> >>> I'm running experiments and analyzing how my changes affect impressions >>> by requesting Impressions and SearchRankLostImpressionShare from the >>> reporting endpoint. I usually get pretty precise numbers in these reports >>> like "13.08%", but I sometimes get really fuzzy numbers like "> 90%", which >>> is not amenable to analysis. >>> >>> Is there a reason why the number is so imprecise? If not, can you >>> replace it with a more precise number? Better yet, can you report >>> SearchRankLostImpressions directly instead of >>> SearchRankLostImpressionShare, which is not very useful in cases where I >>> have 0 impressions? >>> >>> -- >>> Devesh >>> >> -- >> -- >> =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ >> 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 adwor...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> adwords-api...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/adwords-api?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/adwords-api/b2YkbozuyAs/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> adwords-api...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- -- =~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~=~ 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AdWords API Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to adwords-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
