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Tracking cycles and frequencies
Tracking cycles and frequencies

How tracking cycles and frequencies work within Pi

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Written by Dex McPake
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Pi has the ability to track SERPs with four different tracking frequencies.

  • Rapid (bi-hourly / every two hours)

  • Daily (once a day)

  • Weekly (once a week)

  • Monthly (once a month)

Selecting the right tracking frequency for the right objective is important, as each will have different use cases. Rapid tracking is the most accurate level of tracking but isn’t the most cost-effective to track lots of search terms. While monthly can track huge amounts of terms but isn’t the most accurate. The right frequency for the right objective.

When is my data ready to analyse?

Our goal is to track 100% of the data within the hour, day, week, or month depending on your tracking frequency. We then have to process the data and compile the charts, reports, and alerts.

Rapid

First point: Within 2 hours.


Subsequent points: Every two hours.

Daily

When is the data collected?: The data point is taken from any point across the 24 hours.

First point: Any new search terms added before 20.00 GMT will have data available the following day. Any new terms added after this time will be added to the following day's tracking cycle and available the day after that.


Subsequent points: Yesterday's data is available today.

Weekly

When is the data collected?: The data is taken from any day across the 7-day period.

First point: Will track this week* and be available the very next Monday.


Subsequent points: The last completed week's data will be available on Monday.

*Note: Tracking cycle window for the current week closes at 10pm (UTC+0) Friday night. If search terms are added on the weekend they are added into the following week's tracking period.

Monthly

When is the data collected?: The data is taken from any day within the month.

First point: Will track this month* and be available on the 1st of each month.


Subsequent points: The last completed week's data will be available on the 1st of the following month.

*Note: Tracking cycle window for the current month closes 7 days prior to the completion of the month. If search terms are added in the last week of the month, they will be tracked the following month.

Frequency data sharing

Slower tracking frequencies will adopt data from the faster frequency if you're tracking the same search term across multiple frequencies.

For example, if you've been tracking "christmas decorations" in daily across December and then move that term to weekly tracking in January. The data collected from daily will be converted into a week format for you.

*Note: This only applies for Daily, Weekly, Monthly data. Due to the nature of Rapid tracking, data isn't shared.

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