Comments on: Google Analytics New Tracking Helps Load Time

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:20:56 +0000

Hi Erik,
This is great, thanks for sharing this! I actually had someone a few days ago tell me about a plugin to use for load time but I could not find it…thanks again!

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:13:27 +0000

NOt sure if you already new this page but certainly worth looking at.
http://code.google.com/intl/nl-NL/speed/tools.html

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:33:12 +0000

Hi Erik,
Thanks for your comment and sharing your situation. I have not seen any specific blogs out there that are dedicated only to page load times. I will be sure to keep an eye out and will let everyone know once I find a good resource…thanks again.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:21:28 +0000

It is good to think about speed but difficult to realize. Somewhere soon I hope to dive in this subject a little more to increase the loading time of my pages. According to webmaster tools my best site is slower than 52% of the sites. THat is a bad score.

I am using WP and drupal including several caching scripts. Although they compress my files I will probably be better of if I decrease the source files. This would mean that I should clean up HTML and css. MOreover, I have to look carefully at JS scripts.

Is there already some kind of weblog dedicated to increasing loading times?

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:06:12 +0000

Hi Rifki,
It sure is ironic, I too have seen this as well with many sites…thanks for the comment!

By: Rifki

Rifki — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 14:49:35 +0000

Hi Nick

Thanks for another informative post. I especially like your last point regarding the old Google analytics code making the page load time slower.

It’s quite ironic that Google themselves have contributed to slower page load times. Many times have I seen: ‘Waiting for Google Analytics’ in the status bar when visiting some websites.

Rifki