People (Web Surfers) can Now opt Out of Google Analytics

E. Brian Rose

14 years ago

I doubt that there will be a mad dash of web surfers that are rushing to opt out.

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lgibbon

Banned 14 years ago

Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose

I doubt that there will be a mad dash of web surfers that are rushing to opt out.

Well I just did.
Google analytics is the biggest cause of slow loading web pages,
at least it is on my PC.

I've noticed an improvement already.

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E. Brian Rose 14 years ago

Originally Posted by lgibbon

Well I just did.
Google analytics is the biggest cause of slow loading web pages,
at least it is on my PC.

I've noticed an improvement already.

Shhhhh! Keep that info to yourself!
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Intrepreneur 14 years ago

Originally Posted by lgibbon

Well I just did.
Google analytics is the biggest cause of slow loading web pages,
at least it is on my PC.

I've noticed an improvement already.

Yup that's true. G made some improvements on that the other day but obviously they would rather give the opton to opt out altogether for those who are having it real bad (slow).
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theimdude

14 years ago

Originally Posted by lgibbon

Well I just did.
Google analytics is the biggest cause of slow loading web pages,
at least it is on my PC.

I've noticed an improvement already.

Ok I just installed the plugin and have found the same as well

edit - need to add. I just went to a few sites that is always a pain to load such as godaddy, enom and 1and1 and they loading blazing fast and it is not my imagination, including WF as the pages load very fast now

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mojojuju

14 years ago

Originally Posted by theimdude

edit - need to add. I just went to a few sites that is always a pain to load such as godaddy, enom and 1and1 and they loading blazing fast and it is not my imagination, including WF as the pages load very fast now

Wait a minute. I think this is some kind of placebo. It doesn't look like 1and1 uses google analytics on their site.

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theimdude 14 years ago

Originally Posted by mojojuju

Wait a minute. I think this is some kind of placebo. It doesn't look like 1and1 uses google analytics on their site.

on 1and1 there seems to be some tracking but not sure what as it seem a lot of code. As I have a reseller account with enom and use godaddy a lot for domains it has always been a pain in loading very slow. I can load enom and login to my account in a split second now. I just compared on 2 machines and the one with the plugin installed is very fast.

So now it seems that if your site don't have google on then you can use it as a advantage
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- mojojuju 14 years ago
  
  I don't see that this opt out extension makes it any faster.
  
  Here's a super scientific experiment I just conducted to see if this opt-out extension makes pages with google analytics load any faster.
  
  Here's what I did:
  
  1. I downloaded and installed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for Firefox
  
  2. Downloaded and installed Yslow firefox extension which has a handy page load timer.
  
  3. I proceeded to record the page load time for Domain Names, Web Hosting and SSL Certificates - Go Daddy for 5 times with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on turned on, and then 5 times with it turned off. Note that each page load was a hard page load using <CTRL>+<SHIFT>+R and that the browser was not just pulling the page from cache.
  
  Here's the results:
  
  With the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
  1.962
  1.948
  2.215
  2.762
  2.083
  avg 2.194 seconds
  
  Without the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
  2.136
  2.495
  2.063
  1.895
  2.105
  avg 2.1388 seconds
  
  It doesn't look like there's any increase in page speed with the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on activated. My tests actually suggest the page loads faster without Opting out. Of course, I probably need to do more trials, but that's like watching paint dry.
  
  I just don't think the Opt-out browser add-on is going to make an appreciable difference in page load speed. It's not like you don't have the script cached in your browser already.
  
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timpears

14 years ago

Originally Posted by lgibbon

Well I just did.
Google analytics is the biggest cause of slow loading web pages,
at least it is on my PC.

I've noticed an improvement already.

That is odd, I thought that I read that one of the metrics that Google uses to place your site in the serps is the time your page uses to load. I believe that I got that reading something from Google, but I could be wrong about that. I don't really remember. And I know that Google doesn't usually reveal the stuff in their alog. So I am guessing that I am wrong about that.

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Banned 14 years ago

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Dietriffic

14 years ago

Originally Posted by kylekelly62

This is amazing... Someone visits my website, soaks up my bandwidth, and I can't have a small piece of data? WHAT Google needs to do is make a way that I can ban everyone who doesn't allow analytics from my website.

lol... I like that.

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Fernando Veloso

14 years ago

Same thing with web history. No one is going to opt-out or install a add-on.

Problem is: European countries are going to force Google to change some *stuff* and the company is trying to look *good*.

Just my 2 cents.

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Steve Faber

14 years ago

It obviously won't do too much for the reliability of their (your) stats if some people opt out and others don't. It wil probably depend on how much they publicize it and how they word it. If they put a big banner up that says something to the effect of "Protect your privacy. Stop webmasters from getting information about your visit to their sites." Well, then people may, indeed opt out. If they just have it in the fine print somewhere, it will probably just be business as usual. If they are ever forced to change it to an opt in system, it will cease to be a functional analytics option.

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Delta223

14 years ago

I don't use them for the simple reason that I don't want google knowing everything I do with my sites

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MichaelHiles

14 years ago

Side wiki was going to destroy internet marketing too. [rolleyes]

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mojojuju 14 years ago

Originally Posted by MichaelHiles

Side wiki was going to destroy internet marketing too. [rolleyes]

That's a good one. I remember that mass hysteria that broke out here on the warriorforum not so long ago. People were going completely ape**** and they completely abandoned reason regarding the presumed impact of Sidewiki. There were some very entertaining and heated threads back then with gems of information such as:

"Sidewiki will lead to the DEATH of internet marketing."

"Sidewiki will allow spammers to advertise on MY sales page! WTF>???<!!"

"Sidewiki is going to send all of my visitors to Amazon.com"

"Sidewiki will result in CHILD PORN being placed on my entire web site without MY permission."

I can't seem to find some of the best threads that mentioned sidewiki but there were some pretty passionate opinions going on. I'm talking about people that said they'd blackball you if you didn't agree that SideWiki was the greatest danger to online marketers in the whole world.

It's crazy how people went nuts about that. It's funny how people act sometimes.
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- Intrepreneur 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by mojojuju
  
  It's crazy how people went nuts about that. It's funny how people act sometimes.
  
  Aha I found wally. Was wondering where he'd got to.
  
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