Is Google Analytics always this slow/retarded?

I am running speed tests on my website through webpagespeedtest.org to fix my slow website. I changed a lot of things, and I got my site to load up in under a second, with cheap black hat world shared hosting.

I placed the Google Analytics (GA) code in the footer or my website "for speed, " and I ran about 100 tests. On average GA slows down my site by 300ms. To me, this is close to eternity for non-essential analytics.

I'm new to the whole speed optimization game. This speed test is taken from a new website I just started up. Do you have any good reasons why I should keep GA when just starting a website and going through the early stages of traffic growth? I'm just curious; I will probably remove the bloated analytics either way.

Dunno man, I was wondering the same thing yesterday when GTMetrix was telling me it was taking 900ms.
Seems like it was a temporary issue though as it's back to good speed for me now.

Usually it's not that retarded no, but apparently sometimes it is.

Soucha said:

Dunno man, I was wondering the same thing yesterday when GTMetrix was telling me it was taking 900ms.
Seems like it was a temporary issue though as it's back to good speed for me now.

Usually it's not that retarded no, but apparently sometimes it is.

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Wow. I'm sure that won't happen often, but why do you keep GA? People will abandon websites that load longer than 3 seconds, I don't see the big gain in having such in depth analytics.

Chinatown said:

Wow. I'm sure that won't happen often, but why do you keep GA? People will abandon websites that load longer than 3 seconds, I don't see the big gain in having such in depth analytics.

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Well, for me it usually doesn't have that issue.
I've only seen it do that a few times.

The analytics are very beneficial for my purposes, as it helps me see all of my traffic sources, how my social media campaigns are performing, referrals, and a lot of important knowledge. How do you optimize your best traffic channels if you don't have any data? How do you plan ahead?
It also allows me to turn off other reporting software which can often times be just as slow.
It gives insight into quite a lot of things.

Sure, you may not have any use for it, some people don't.
If you don't find it useful then don't run it, but I don't really understand how you don't find it useful.

As you said, people will leave websites that take longer then 2 or 3 seconds to load but you shouldn't generally have a problem with that regardless. My websites all load in that time with GA. It rarely causes such issues in my experience.

AlbertHustle said:

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Bruhhhh, this thread is more than 3 years old and you bumped it with a "+" ?????

i have the same problem