Can you trust the numbers in Freshdesk?

What does Freshdesk keep track of?

• Freshdesk keeps a set of ready-made reports on how the support team is doing.

  In Freshdesk's own words: Freshdesk provides a list of default curated reports that provide a 360° view of your support performance. Analytics in Freshdesk, read 2026-11-12.

• Every ticket in Freshdesk carries its own log of changes, notes and emails sent.

  In Freshdesk's own words: The Show Activities button on the ticket details page provides a comprehensive log of all activity on a ticket. Viewing Ticket Activity History, read 2026-11-12.

What can make Freshdesk's numbers look wrong?

1. A report can be up to about half an hour behind the ticket list, because, as Freshdesk's help pages say, Analytics refreshes every 30 minutes.

   In Freshdesk's own words: The reports and widgets in Analytics have a refresh time of 30 minutes which is standard across all the Freshdesk plans. Can the data in reports/widgets be made realtime?, read 2026-11-12.

2. A ticket export can show more tickets than a report for the same period, since Freshdesk's help pages say merged tickets are in the export but not in the report count.

   In Freshdesk's own words: The ticket export takes into account the merged tickets which are not included in the count for the reports. Why is there a difference in the ticket count between a ticket export and the reports?, read 2026-11-12.

3. Ticket counts can drop after cleanup, because, as Freshdesk's help pages say, spam, deleted and merged tickets are not counted in reports.

   In Freshdesk's own words: Tickets that are marked as spam, deleted and those that are merged will not be considered in the Reports. What will happen to my reports if I delete an invalid ticket?, read 2026-11-12.

4. Response and resolution times can look off if the helpdesk time zone is not the business's own, since Freshdesk's help pages say the timers follow that setting.

   In Freshdesk's own words: The timers are based on the Helpdesk time zone that can be configured according to your location. On what time zone are the ticket counting timers based?, read 2026-11-12.

How do I check Freshdesk's numbers myself?

1. Filtering a Freshdesk report down to one group, agent or ticket type makes a surprising total easier to trace.

   In Freshdesk's own words: You can apply filters at the report level or at the widget level. Analytics in Freshdesk, read 2026-11-12.

2. Looking at a report's Date Updated value shows whether a number is missing the most recent tickets.

   In Freshdesk's own words: Each report includes a "Date Updated" value indicating the time and date of the last data update. Analytics in Freshdesk, read 2026-11-12.

How does Freshdesk work with Feder?

Connect Freshdesk to Feder and it joins your Experience apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Freshdesk.

When you connect Freshdesk, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.

Other apps that feed Experience

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• Pendopoll responses

Questions owners ask about Freshdesk

• Why did my CSAT score change in Freshdesk?CSAT is the share of answers that were positive, so more neutral answers can lower it even when negative answers do not rise.
• Why did my average first response time jump in Freshdesk?Reports count response time only within your business hours.
• Why did Freshdesk resolution time change for a past period?Average resolution time is built from the tickets resolved in the period you pick, so it moves with what was resolved, not with what was opened.

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Where do these answers come from?

Everything this page says about Freshdesk comes from Freshdesk's own pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.