Comments on: Speed up Google Analytics using simple PHP Script

By: Joyce

Joyce — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:40:09 +0000

James: If you have access to cron, then a cron job would be the best method for updating the script.

By: james

james — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:34:58 +0000

Pat: it only downloads the file if it’s out of date. Otherwise it serves a cached copy. As for client side caching, once you gzip it and perhaps merge with existing scripts, you get a negligible download and at worst 1 extra request

Joyce: the updating of the script is better done with a cron job

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:31:19 +0000

Considering that Google Analytics is made to calculate the amount of hits to your website I think they’re well able to calculate their server usage. For this reason I don’t think their servers overload for calling a JS file.

This script makes the visitor wait while the php downloads the file (no content is displayed during this time). The users probably already have Google’s js script cached, why would they need to download it again? The only reason this script is good is if the users have an ad blocker to block Google Analytics’ url.

By: appel

appel — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:54 +0000

@Ric: My guess is all you need to do is point the script at the new tracking file:

$remoteFile = ‘http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

Thanks, Joyce!

By: Ric

Ric — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:42:52 +0000

Nice idea, but what about the new tracking code too?

By: Lane Campbell

Lane Campbell — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:46:44 +0000

Wow! This is brilliant! Google should be in contact with you to implement this solution as an official one!

My load times for my site are now in the 0.xx instead of the x.xx thanks to this script!

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