Google analytics slowed site load

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  • February 28, 2017 at 10:34 am #364344

    adyp
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    Hello,

    i just loaded my home page and had to wait for somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds while the browser bar showed ‘waiting for google analytics’. Looking on the web, I came across this article (http://www.analyticsmarket.com/blog/tracking-code-slows-my-site) that suggests:

    “Waiting for google-analytics.com”

    Some have noticed on slow-loading pages that the status message in their browser sometimes says “Waiting for google-analytics.com”. This only happens on sites that run an ancient version of the Google Analytics tracking code!

    – could this be the case?

    Also – this slowed page rendering (my advertisers slide-show did not load until the ga issue was finished) and pingdom shows it is quite early in the page loading process – can the GA/geodirectory be coded to not stop page rendering?

    I have only notice this once recently (GA was particularly slow), but I don’t want it happening at all!

    site/admin details to follow.

    Thanks,
    Adrian

    February 28, 2017 at 10:35 am #364346

    adyp
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    February 28, 2017 at 10:37 am #364347

    adyp
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    ps – all plugins up to date and running on MaxCDN with GDF Moder Child theme

    February 28, 2017 at 9:00 pm #364485

    Paolo
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    Hi,

    If it’s in your home page is the Google Analytics tracking code that is slowing down the website, that would have nothing to do with GeoDirectory and the Google Analytics system that we use, because that is only loaded in listings detail pages.

    Did you check if you are running the latest version of the tracking code?

    You may need to ask for support to Google Analytics for this.

    Thanks

    March 1, 2017 at 9:03 am #364570

    adyp
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    Hi Paolo,

    I think I will have only put in any code as part of setting up GA for GD listings, but will have a look and see if it might be an outdated version.

    thanks,
    Adrian

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