Forum analytics / Adsense views

[rkobball]

Hi please can someone help me how come the views I'm getting on Adsense are so different to the amount on the forum analytics as that was the reason I signed up to ad-free and Adsense at the moment it's looking like a waste of money.

My forum views are normally 5000+ per day and yet on Adsense its barley hitting 1000 have I done something wrong?

[Craig]

Hi

There is a difference in the way the data is recorded. For the forum analytics, a pageview is any time a page is requested and sent to screen. For the adsense, and any other stat counter you may add, there are a number of other variables that may impact whether a view is recorded or not.

For example, someone may be loading the page in a browser with javascript disabled, an adblocker [ which may block adense, for example ], or may navigate away from the page before the script has loaded and processed. Those views will not be recorded by a third party counter, but will be recorded by the forum.

Craig

[Michael]

Hi,

I'd also like to add that there are also ad-blockers and bots that will still be recorded as a pageview by the forum (as explained by Craig above) but wouldn't register as an ad-view with Adsense. There is also no guarantee that every page load will be supplied with an ad by Adsense so you'll never see 1:1 numbers between the two.

[rkobball]

No problem thanks for your help.