Im starting to use Analytics and found out that the number of visitor does not tally with my Adsense Page Impression. Anyone know why? Please comment. Thanks
No its not. It said when you signed up that it wasn't and gave a update time and I believe I saw 24 hours but it seems it updates quicker.
Analytics and Adsense have their own calculation about visitors and Page Impression so obviously Page Impression is more then your visitors shown in Analytics Report.
If you have google affiliate network account, you can link your google affiliate network account with adsense. Then that will let you link your google analytics account with your google adsense account and maybe that may solve the problem. I'm not sure but trying it isn't a bad deal either. In fact, it will be great for you.
Based on my experience, On small sized websites it's almost real-time. For example websites that receive below 5,000 visitors. The stats for my largest website that receives about 50,000 visitors a day is usually updated with long delays. 2 hours would be the minimum. minimum of 48 hours when I use advanced segments to create my stats report! But I'm happy anyway ;-) So far it's the coolest analytics software out there and it's free and accurate. Specially the recent addition of Google Adsense Revenue which is a real blessing :-D
Analytics is garbage. Period. Look into what Google even says about its own product. Complete garbage. Upgrade to something like statcounter if you're really looking to get involved in this game.
How could you say that Eric?! Google Analytics is by far the best web analytics software and it is unbelievably free! I fugured out why my stats don't seem to be realtime. Turns out for websites that receive huge amounts of traffic you have to expect some delays but no more than 1 day.