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Originally Posted by LuDawgs

Ok, it's working perfectly fine, but I'm not so confident in the statistics for each banner. I think the impressions are accurate, but the "clicks" are not. I know this because I've clicked a few myself in testing. I have that option enabled. Also, on the rbs_stats.php, the impressions vary slightly from what I see in "Banner List" for one ad. Not a big deal, but accurate reporting would be helpful to be able to show my sponsors.

The statistics are only reliable in the moment you are taking the snapshot. On busy sites all the counting can advance very fast. Also, some data may arrive later due to the nature of queries pushed into the shutdown queue of queries, and some may never arrive if a service doesn't reply in time.

In the end however, the statistics are very reliable, just try it on a test board and watch what it does. At the backend you may monitor the rbs_* tables, too. Under normal circumstances, every click is traced.