The `top_questions` field shows outdated information?

Question

I am using Stack Exchange API. I posted question from the doc page /questions/add to Stack Overflow. This was my first question. As that question was to check the function /questions/add, means it was not a proper question to be posted, I deleted it. Now that question is not visible in the Stack Overflow website. But the API is returning it as

"top_questions": [
        {
           "score": 0,
           "post_type": "question",
           "post_id": 30978609,
           "title": "Use an access_token with write_access"
        }
     ],

as response when /me/associated is ran in doc page. Isn't this a bug?

Also,

"question_count": 1,

is wrong. It should be 0.

I have done this before in doc page. Question was created. After that, I deleted it because of same reasons. This question doesn't show in API response, which is as expected. In this case API is giving correct response.

And, In Stack Apps, now I have posted 8 questions. But, response is

"question_count": 7,

and

"top_questions": [
        {
           "score": 3,
           "post_type": "question",
           "post_id": 6396,
           "title": "Some blank properties missing"
        },
        {
           "score": 2,
           "post_type": "question",
           "post_id": 6395,
           "title": "Where is "items" & "badge_counts" documentation?"
        },
        {
           "score": 1,
           "post_type": "question",
           "post_id": 6404,
           "title": "How to delete apps in StackApps?"
        },
        {
           "score": 0,
           "post_type": "question",
           "post_id": 6405,
           "title": "Social Connect for Visual Studio (Placeholder)"
        },
        {
           "score": 0,
           "post_type": "question",
           "post_id": 6409,
           "title": "/questions/add of StackExchange app gives nonsense response"
        }
     ],

"top_questions" is ambiguous. Can somebody give an explanation on this? Are these bugs?

Answer 1

Although this can be annoying or confusing, there is no bug.
Take a look at your Stack Exchange accounts page. Currently it shows:

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10 questions, here on Stack Apps, and 1 question on Stack Overflow.
Those are the same numbers currently reported for you by /users/{ids}/associated.

Both sets of numbers are currently stale (You have 11 and 0 questions), but this is because

Stack Exchange updates lesser-used reports/statistics in timed jobs.

There is too much data for everything to be instantaneous. That Stack Exchange account information takes anywhere from a few minutes to a day to update, depending on the column.

Also, these jobs sometimes crash. So something that normally updates in minutes can occasionally take quite a bit longer.

Check back in a day and see if the numbers are still wrong -- assuming you haven't added a bunch more questions. ;)