When it comes to digital advertisement, Google Analytics and Google Ad Manager play a crucial part. They are the primary sources to gauge the effectiveness of their website and its the progress.
Tracking your pages visited and the number of impressions will allow you to pinpoint areas that require modification. This will assist the publisher build an efficient website using tools like advertising placements, audience targeting and so on. So, knowing the way these concepts function is essential in maximizing the revenue from advertising.
DFP is now component the Google Ad Manager, is an ad server that allows management and metrics for reporting can be created like clicks and impressions.
The impression represents the simplest parameter and is a representation of a visit of your website. The number of impressions within Google Ad Manager represents the number of times an advertisement appears to the user’s screen.
It could refer to displaying images, text or even a video. Every time a user opens an internet page and the ad appears, it counts as a single impression.
GA 4(Google Analytics) on the other hand, is a program that lets you assess the amount of traffic a website receives and identify the source of that traffic. One of its features is to track pageviews, which is the count of how many times a webpage has ads is shown on the screen of a user.
If a user is unique and is a visitor to one of the pages on your website is counted as a pageview. If a person would visit your website 30 times across different pages on your website it would count 30 page views in Google analytics.
To figure out the number of page views every user generates, count your total pageviews, and divide it by total number of users who are unique.
In the majority of cases the impressions of ads and pageviews are believed to be identical however they may differ. This is an example: abc.com has put an advertisement for a leaderboard on a homepage, and a only one person visits the homepage.
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This indicates that abc.com has had one pageview and the ad received one impression. The user then goes to a webpage where the same ad appears, that results in a new impression of the ad and a pageview for abc.com.
But, if you use the same situation with an advertiser who would like their ad to be displayed only in the Article page, and it not be displayed on homepages, the website will be able to display two pages and one impression.
The most frequently asked question is what causes an inconsistency between Google Analytics view reports as well as Google Ad Manager impression reports?
Things to take into consideration are Javascript loading problems, inventory issues BOT traffic, settings for integration on the website such as browser preferences, advertising blockers missing iFrame codes, and numerous other.
For more information on discrepancies, go here: https://support.google.com/dfp_premium/answer/177405?hl=en
FAQ
Are page views and impressions the same thing?
No. Impressions refers to the amount of times an advertisement is displayed to a person. Pageviews refers to the number of times a person views an entire page.
What is a”pageview” in Google Analytics?
A pageview happens the moment when a web page is visited by a person and is recorded through Google Analytics code.
How can I view my images in Google Analytics?
Impressions are primarily for advertisements. Views of pages are available through Google Analytics. Learn more information about pageviews and impressions in this blog article.