Google Analytics goes async. This is excellent news—the latest version of the Google Analytics JavaScript is designed to allow for asynchronous loading, so it won’t hold up the rendering of your page. Analytics and banner ads are the two worst offenders when it comes to slowing down page loads. Now if only a banner ad vendor would follow suit...
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We made Pegasus load all ads in iframes to avoid slowdown. It was a pain to find a cross-browser approach that worked. Async analytics is nice indeed.
Jeremy Dunck - 2nd December 2009 18:41 - #