>>"As for today May 17th 2010"
yes... indeed for futureproof SEO avoid the heavy scripts which not only slow down page loading (even if only a little bit when ur on the "cutting edge") and also indicate lack of transparency (web documents should be all about semantic xml)
Why did this link have to be a video? No idea what you're saying as I can't turn on my sound at work. This is just a talking head, you could have done this as text and saved the bandwidth
Thank you, Matt. And, BTW, I'm using ThinkPad too! :) Need to say GA really had become much faster lately. Thank you guys, it was really questionable for us to stay with GA or not exactly because of performance issue.
mine and everyone else's concern is the amount of POWER google has over our online lives. the email, the stats of the site, the ranking..... I did remove Google analytics from my site for a while out of paranoia. There must be something else other then Google to do everything.
thank u matt...ur answers sessions are better now...tackling the question and going answering the neighboring questions thats caused by the initial q... great job!
@pusztatube yes I did and probably will give it a try again to see if it has made any difference, however till one is asking users to download another thing in order to see the page, there will be delays.
I personally believe that analytics etc. are best run in the background, rather than front end.
Is Matt saying that Google could start using GA data as a ranking factor in the future? I don't think this will happen, but I'd like a bigger reassurance than "as of today"
Site loading slowly is exactly the reason why I have stopped using Google Analytics, as I want the sites to be as fast as possible to the end users. Of course if you guys could come with something a little faster or a module for Apache etc. to ensure the processing is done in background, rather than on the frontend, it would be great for webmasters like me.
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