Comments on: William Paterson University – Episode #175 http://educheckup.com/2010/07/14/william-paterson-university-episode-175/ Website reviews from your visitor’s point of view Sat, 12 May 2012 22:59:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Curtiss Grymala http://educheckup.com/2010/07/14/william-paterson-university-episode-175/comment-page-1/#comment-1694 Curtiss Grymala Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:33:30 +0000 http://educheckup.com/?p=1666#comment-1694 Completely understood. I felt that way for a long time, too. It used to be especially annoying with Analytics a few years ago, as that seemed to drag our page load to a halt for 1 or 2 seconds on some occasions. Google's servers seem to have gotten a great deal faster and more reliable for this sort of thing, though. Once we switched to jQuery (which is pretty compact considering all of the power and features it adds, but still adds a good bit of weight to the page), I personally decided that the potential benefits of having the library already cached outweighed the potential cons (especially since I try really hard to make sure all of our pages work properly without javascript, so it doesn't kill anything if the javascript fails for some reason). I guess a lot of it has to do with personal preference, amount of traffic (judging by your Analytics posts on the Wayne State blog, it looks like you guys get 5 to 10 times the amount of traffic we get) and server resources. Completely understood. I felt that way for a long time, too. It used to be especially annoying with Analytics a few years ago, as that seemed to drag our page load to a halt for 1 or 2 seconds on some occasions. Google’s servers seem to have gotten a great deal faster and more reliable for this sort of thing, though.

Once we switched to jQuery (which is pretty compact considering all of the power and features it adds, but still adds a good bit of weight to the page), I personally decided that the potential benefits of having the library already cached outweighed the potential cons (especially since I try really hard to make sure all of our pages work properly without javascript, so it doesn’t kill anything if the javascript fails for some reason).

I guess a lot of it has to do with personal preference, amount of traffic (judging by your Analytics posts on the Wayne State blog, it looks like you guys get 5 to 10 times the amount of traffic we get) and server resources.

]]> By: Nick DeNardis http://educheckup.com/2010/07/14/william-paterson-university-episode-175/comment-page-1/#comment-1689 Nick DeNardis Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:00:16 +0000 http://educheckup.com/?p=1666#comment-1689 Curtiss, Very true, but I guess one difference is if you are using Google new Analytics code it is non blocking. It doesn't interfere with the page load at all and can even track visits before the full page has loaded. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-analytics-launches-asynchronous.html I just prefer to keep the number of dependencies down incase the site starts acting up there is less to debug. Curtiss,
Very true, but I guess one difference is if you are using Google new Analytics code it is non blocking. It doesn’t interfere with the page load at all and can even track visits before the full page has loaded.
http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/12/google-analytics-launches-asynchronous.html

I just prefer to keep the number of dependencies down incase the site starts acting up there is less to debug.

]]> By: Curtiss Grymala http://educheckup.com/2010/07/14/william-paterson-university-episode-175/comment-page-1/#comment-1685 Curtiss Grymala Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:44:39 +0000 http://educheckup.com/?p=1666#comment-1685 Out of curiosity, why is it any worse to rely on Google's CDN for AJAX libraries than it is to rely on Google for Analytics script? For sites that utilize Google Analytics, I don't see any reason not to utilize the Google Hosted AJAX API while you're at it. You're already going to be waiting on Google's servers, anyway. Out of curiosity, why is it any worse to rely on Google’s CDN for AJAX libraries than it is to rely on Google for Analytics script? For sites that utilize Google Analytics, I don’t see any reason not to utilize the Google Hosted AJAX API while you’re at it. You’re already going to be waiting on Google’s servers, anyway.

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