Get Rid of Google Analytics
I’m so tired of pages taking forever to load, only to find “connecting to google-analytics” in my taskbar. Don’t be so damn cheap! Spend $30 and get Mint (or the self-hosted solution of your choice) so I don’t have to sit and wait for Google to process your stats. Stats are your problem, not your users’, and if the application you’re using impedes on user experience it should be obvious you need a change.
The allure of free is hard to resist, I tried it myself a week before pitching it. The interface is nice, but not as rich (or as extensible) as Mint. The whole week Google Analytics was continually going down, causing my site to hang. Apparently, I’m not the only one fed up either.
[…] noticed that your homepage hangs when including the Google Analytics JavaScript file? I think a few people have noticed a delay. Well, let’s try something different. Let’s create the script node dynamically […]
“connecting to google-analytics” - is freezing up my blog - I can’t read my comments or comments on other people’s blogs or access the Dashboard. Neither can get through to Google help or Blogger help etc etc. I’ve never signed up to GA. It’s not all the time - mostly mid-afternoon UK time when it suddenly stops. It’s a pain.
Is there anyway I can solve it? Help………
hi
i don’t know why each time i log on to any google related site i keep getting this error
“ssl.google-analytics.com has send an incorrect or unexpected message. error code: -12263″
this happened right after i went to the analytics website. i just logged in using my gmail account. i didn’t install anything.
i’m using a firefox browser ver. 2.14.
also, the pages take so long to load now… also I’ve also noticed pages around the web occasionally hanging with the browser’s status bar reading connecting to ssl.google-analytics.com….
Please help me get rid of it. I don’t really need it.
Thanks!
GA (Google Analytics) does have this annoying habit of leaving a page “unloaded” i.e. waiting and waiting for GA to complete its round trip. It’s essential people put the javascript that does the remote call at the bottom of their pages so at least everything above the javascript has been delivered to the client browser.
Beth,
I stumbled upon this post via google, so I am a little late to the game. Now, while I agree that GA has had issues before related to speed, but there are ways around this. I dealt with this issue when I was at Barbour Publishing.
Now, with that being said, there is simply no way you can compare Mint Statistics to what GA offers. Mint is so completely basic, and provides very simplistic snapshots. Anything beyond that, and you can’t do much analytical research. It has a pretty interface, but lacks very much so when it comes to proper reporting, cross comparisons, and actual data.
If you just want to know your visitors, browsers, time spent, etc - them Mint is just fine, but for anyone who takes analytics seriously, it simply isn’t a useful tool.