This article is for website and/or app owners who wish to know more about data freshness and the impact of the Analytics 360 data-processing and reporting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) on features.
Data Freshness
Data freshness is how long it takes Google Analytics to collect and process an event from your property. If that process takes 20 minutes, then data freshness is 20 minutes.
Intervals of data freshness
Analytics has the following approximate intervals of data freshness for Google Analytics 360 and/or standard properties:
| Interval | Processing time | Properties | Data limits per property | Query coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realtime | Less than 1 minute | 360, Standard | None | Limited to a few dimensions and metrics |
| 360 intraday | About 1 hour | 360 | Premium Normal and Premium Large as defined here | All reports and API queries, except these |
| Standard intraday | 4-8 hours | Standard | All property sizes | All reports and API queries, except these |
| Daily | 12 hours | 360, Standard | All property sizes | All reports and API queries |
| Daily | 18 hours | 360, Standard | Premium Large | All reports and API queries |
| Daily | 24+ hours | 360, Standard | Premium XLarge | All reports and API queries |
Limitations
Data may not be in sync between explorations and reporting.
Features with non-standard data processing
The following Google Analytics 4 features are not covered by the Analytics 360 data-processing service level agreement:
| Feature | Estimated processing time |
|---|---|
|
Data Import |
4 hours |
| Unsampled exploration | 1 hour |
| User-lifetime technique | 24 hours |
| Insights | 24 hours |
| Realtime | Less than 1 minute |
| BigQuery daily export | 24 hours after midnight in the property timezone |
Features not covered by Reporting SLA
The following features are not covered by the Analytics 360 Reporting service level agreement:
| Feature | Availability |
|---|---|
| Realtime | Best effort |
| Data API queries | Best effort |
| PDF export | Best effort |
| Unsampled exploration | Best effort |
| Intelligence services (Insights, Single Search) | Best effort |
| Queries that join data from other Google products (such as Google Ads) | Best effort |
| Queries that join data that has been imported | Best effort |
| Reporting queries with more than 1M rows of data | Best effort |
| Exploration queries with more than 1M events | Best effort |
| Report queries that have filters applied | Best effort |