The numbers that show up in the dashboard are based on the number of times the gadget spec is rendered. We recently made drastic improvements to caching on iGoogle. The result is that your gadget spec doesn't need to be rendered as many times although the rendered gadget could still be displayed to end users the same number of times.
The upshot is that comparing pageviews (as shown in the dashboard) between different gadgets isn't as meaningful as comparing the pageviews for a gadget to its own pageviews for a different time. We're looking at ways to address this. Thanks, Rob Russell Google Developer Relations On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 8:16 PM, ty <[email protected]> wrote: > I logged in to report the same issue and saw this post. > > We have the same issue with almost all of our gadgets. The drop is > drastic, around 80-90% both in unique daily users and pageviews (based > on dashboard). The sharp drop started on July 9th for us. No changes > in installations/removals chart which seems to be healthy. > > We also use Google Analytics on our gadgets and the story is a little > bit different there: analytics reports show about a 70% drop around > July 22nd in # of visits, but this is met by about 4 times increase in > pages/visit starting on the same date. consequently, no material > change in total pageviews per analytics. > > Quite strange, sounds like there was a change again in the system. > > Would be great to see if everyone was having the same issue? > > Thanks > > On Jul 27, 11:53 am, AAD <[email protected]> wrote: > > Since the first week of June the number of users in the dashboard has > > fallen off the earth. From over 800,000 to 599,000. I hate to say I > > don't believe it....but I don't believe it. Google Analytics > > contradicts this trend and I trust that more. > > > > Anyone else seeing this. I may be in denial but the gadget has been > > around for 3 years and I monitor it very closely and this doesn't jive > > with what I'm seeing elsewhere. > > > > The gadget is Artistaday.com. > http://www.google.com/ig/directory?url=www.artistaday.com/aad29.xml > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-gadgets-api%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
