Does Google Analytics have peformance overhead?
- by Mohit Nanda
To what extent does Google Analytics impact performance?
I'm looking for the following:
Benchmarks (including response times/pageload times et al)
Links or results to similar benchmarks
One (possible) method of testing Google Analytics (GA) on your site:
Serve ga.js (the Google Analytics JavaScript file) from your own server.
Update from Google Daily (test 1) and Weekly (test 2).
I would be interested to see how this reduces the communication between the client webserver and the GA server.
Has anyone conducted any of these tests? If so, can you provide your results? If not, does anyone have a better method for testing the performance hit (or lack thereof) for using GA?