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Re:Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache by mootothemax on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @01:37PM (#1865631)
Somewhat ironically, one of the biggest slowdowns on my websites has been using Google Analytics. I only realised this after I switched completely to my own installation of Piwik - give it a try, the load times can be quite surprising.
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Re:Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache by trickjarrett on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @01:41PM (#1865646)
Were you using the asyncronous Analytics code?
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Re:Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache by mootothemax on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @02:17PM (#1865800)
Nah, and to be fair, this was a while ago - when the async stuff had barely been released in beta. I hope the situation's improved somewhat now because of it :)
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Re:Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache by trickjarrett on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @03:09PM (#1866041)
The async code makes a world of difference, it definitely improved things for me and my sites.
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Re:Google Releases mod_pagespeed for Apache by hippich on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @01:43PM (#1865659)
As another option - you can cache GA js code locally and combine it with the rest site's js code. That's what Google Analytics module for Drupal is doing. Result - no third-party requests at all.
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