Posts Tagged ‘openx vs 3rd party’

OpenX VS 3rd party’s server

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Question :

When we are redirecting a 3rd party tag, we are seeing a huge discrepancy between the # of impressions reported by our OpenX vs. the 3rd party’s server. Our OpenX shows a dramatically lower number of impressions than the 3rd party server does. The discrepancy we’re seeing is that the 3rd party server is showing over 2X higher the number of impressions than our OpenX shows, much greater than the 10-15% OpenX says may occur with integrating 3rd party tags.

I don’t believe we have any setting stored for our OpenX to strip out non-unique impressions (we don’t even know where that is available). I know you provide a module to do the opposite, namely drill down to count only unique impressions and clicks, but I am hoping your familiarity with the auditing of OpenX can help us dig into our counting discrepancy.

OpenX vs 3rd Party Impressions / Clicks

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

Question

I would like more detail on how you plan to rationalize the Imps/clicks #’s seen by our OpenX vs. 3rd party. Do you have a guess as to why there is such a gap between our numbers and the 3rd party’s now? Also, if you can rationalize the figures between the two sources, will this be an option we can turn on/off to see the rationalized/uniform #’s or will our OpenX always show the same #’s as the 3rd party once we implement? Can you provide more insight into what you plan to implement?

Answer

As you are displaying ads by image tag then OpenX should have same stats as adtechus.com (it can have 1 to 5% change only but it should not have 100% difference as you mentioned).

(JavaScript type of adcode which is not compatible with OpenX may have problem but image type of ad-code should not have problem in stats.)

If it needs then we can format adtechus code such that both can track clicks and impressions and shows correct and less differenced stats.