I wonder if this improvement is responsible for the issues developers have been having clearing cache.
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API/browse_thread/thread/eb1a66486092aefa On Jul 29, 4:24 pm, Rob Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
