Hi Tony
What I refer to - probably erroneously - as Google's new 'benchmarking
service' is in fact their recently launched Data Sharing option,
accessed through your Google Analytics homepage. This GA Dating Sharing
effort involves webmasters signing up to share web stat info (gathered
by Google Analytics) from your own site anonymously with the uber-Google
database. You are then able to download comparitive stats from what
Google describes as 'similar sites'.
I signed up to see if would be possible to get some sort of consistent
comparison figures with other culture websites worldwide - but the Goog
website then said it would take 'a few weeks' for our data to be taken
in and processed and then offered back to us. Anyone else tried it?
In the meantime, I notice that our Google Analytics interface slowed
down to a crawl - so I've now opted out.
I've tried all variations of browser etc, but it's still slow.
Jon
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
Tony Crockford
Sent: 03 April 2008 13:50
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Subject: Re: Google Analytics - anyone else finding it is slow?
On 3 Apr 2008, at 13:34, Jon Pratty wrote:
> Hello listers
>
> I'd just like to ask anyone else who uses Google Analytics if they
> have noticed the service running quite slowly recently.
Just checked in, looks fine to me.
> Could it be that
> Google's Benchmarking service is putting an extra load on the service?
?
>
> I signed up for Benchmarking recently and found that my web interface
> to GA stopped dead. I then opted out of the facility, but I'm still
> finding GA is running at a snail's pace.
How do you mean signed up for? I have benchmarking on a recent site
(using the new javascript) and not on an older site (using the legacy
script)
reports run fine on each.
what browser are you using to view GA with?
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