Hello @raymundo2, thanks for getting in touch. We’re glad to hear you’ve recently installed the Site Kit plugin and I’d be happy to help you understand the data on your dashboard.
As of version 1.170.0, Site Kit includes data for the current day in the dashboard. Since this update, some users have noticed that new visits don’t appear right away or that there is a delay in their metrics for the current day.
To help clarify how this data is displayed, please keep these two factors in mind:
- Hourly updates: Site Kit fetches fresh data approximately once per hour. It does not refresh every time you load the page.
- GA4 processing time: Google Analytics 4 (GA4) typically takes 2 to 6 hours to process new data. This means data for the current day in Site Kit is usually a few hours behind your actual live traffic.
While you can now see data for the current day, it is subject to standard processing times and will fluctuate throughout the day as Google Analytics completes its processing.
The team is working on updating the dashboard to make this more clear in the near future. I hope this helps you to better understand this but if there’s anything else I can answer for you then please let me know.
As we didn’t receive a response I’ll mark this as resolved. Feel free to open a new support topic if you continue to encounter issues, or reopen this topic and we’d be happy to assist.
