Comments on: Does Google Analytics slow down page loading?

By: David Lynch

David Lynch — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:24:42 +0000

lol… maybe i will and tell them Ajay sent me.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:56:26 +0000

Google has an office in Dublin, it should be faster next door
Knock at Google’s door and ask why it is damn slow.

By: David Lynch

David Lynch — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:52:44 +0000

Personally, I like analytics, but im happy with the hosting companys statistics and ended up ended up just removing analytics for what its worth to the speed of my site.

By: joe

joe — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:27:07 +0000

If you clear the cache then you have to reget the js file. In generally people have the ga.js file cached because some other site is using google analytics.

By: Little Green

Little Green — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:12:23 +0000

I don’t use google-analytics in my website… I’m a simple user, not a web designer/creator … just a simple user.
I’ve got to this page in order to find a way to disable once for all this analytics that slows down sometimes my experience.
I have a large broadband, I must say, and I must say that even in that case sometimes I feel the pain, especially in the mobile world…
with my mobile phone that is just a nightmare…

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 19:02:16 +0000

That is so strange. In Europe we normally have higher bandwidth and websites should load faster.
There might be latency as Google servers are in USA.

For you the solution could be to not use Google Analytics and use Awstat instead.

I wish if Google folks could look into this issue and help us out to keep Internet faster.

By: Little Green

Little Green — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:17:27 +0000

Well, I live in switzerland and I have many many times problems with slow response with google-analytics, I wish sometimes that it doesn’t exist and have full speed of websites…
but no, not only google-analytics but all others which are doing analytics is also sometime slwoing down because of network problem or I don’t know what…

That and the IP geolocation… that’s my 2 things I hate the most about internet since I’ve been in internet in 1992.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Wed, 04 May 2011 08:55:55 +0000

Hi Jose,
I doubt that Google Analytics slows down YouTube and pdf reader. May be your internet is slow, or the document you want to view is large size or YouTube is slow.

Chances are that GA might be slow as well at that point of time.

However I would be surprise to learn that it is the GA code which is actually slowing down.

Try simple test. When you see pdf viewer or YouTube is slowing down and status bar shows GA loading then remove GA code immediately and refresh the page and see if it improves? Put back GA code and retry.

It will be hit and miss test as by the time you have removed the code and refreshed the page the problem might have gone.

Try to move GA code in footer or just before closing body tag instead of inserting it in header as recommended by Google.

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 04 May 2011 07:32:15 +0000

Hi guys,

I had faced some issues with this GA.

In one of my sites home page i had put this GA code. sometimes back this was taking too much time to load and I tried by removing the GA code and it worked. After that GA code was made async by google and whne i put back the GA code , there was no issues and now page loads fine. Recently i had another issue when using the docs.google online pdf viewer app, then the pdf was not loading, I had PDF readers installed. and when the pdf viwer page is took on browser, it gives message as connection timedout. in status bar it shows “waiting for google analytics”..But other pages with GA code are loading fine. there is also issue with the Youtube video bar tool.

Also there are some issues with my blogger blogs, the images are not loading and the Article posting editor is showing a spinning circle and status bar show “waiting for google analytics”

thanks

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:27:46 +0000

The google analytics script is quite lightweight and I never even noticed it was running. They improved it all quite well since it first came to be.