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Speed Up Google Analytics: Use Async

Saw a great post at High Performance Web Sites blog, Google Analytics goes async.  The author is Steve Souders, who works at Google on web performance.  So this is from the horses mouth.

Think about it, why would you care when the Google Analytics code is loaded?  All it does is capture data, as long as Google gets it — it may as well go out at midnight.  The new code enables an “async” request in HTML5. › Continue reading

Tags: Async, Asynchronous, Google, Google Analytics, Google Gears, HTML 5, HTML5, Steve Souders