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pierre_pierre
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Google-Analytics.com

I notice I think just tonight that the forum index is very slow to finish of loading, looking at the bottom bar it is transferring data from Google-Analytics.com
What the heck is that?
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dvorak
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

I'd noticed that too,  as i have a block on it.
I thought it was some kind of click tracking.
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waynepyrah
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

Just monitoring software, seeing which pages are popular, where visitors came from etc
I use the same on my personal website, very useful 🙂
http://www.google.com/analytics/
pierre_pierre
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

All very well but who gave it permission to look at what I am doing it looks like an invasion from Phorm Embarrassed Lips_are_sealed Undecided
stordoff
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

PlusNet have it installed on their forum
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    _uacct = "UA-1617269-1";
    urchinTracker();
</script>
Hardly an 'invasion', it doesn't do much beyond what a normal server log could show.  Phorm creates a profile for you from all the websites you visit, whereas this profiles the SITE, based on all of it's users
pierre_pierre
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

Well I am on a 6 mg connection and it is taking a lot of seconds to move around the forum, I hate to think what it is doing to somebody on a slow connect. 

A Full explanation from PN please

Just checked it took 15 seconds to complete google
zubel
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

Try reading the other thread Pierre. 
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pierre_pierre
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

What other thread Barry?
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pierre_pierre
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

OK that explains slow speed but not Google-Analytics
Heloman
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

It's just used by PN to get details of visitors to their sites, for goodness sake! Nothing to get hysterical about IMHO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Analytics.
Its used by countless websites that you probably visit.....
pierre_pierre
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

Thats your humble opinion, but it is just what Phorm were going to do for other ISP's, and they got a right load of flack about tracking programs being hidden from users
gswindale
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

Difference is:
Google Analytics tells PN which browsers have visited their site.
Phorm tells ISP what sites their user's browsers have visited.
Slight difference.
Basically Google Analytics is for companies to say 23% of our visitors use IE, 56% use Firefox, 1% use Safari (when it works) and the rest use Opera (for example). 
Phorm will enable an ISP to customise their adverts based on previous visits to sites.
Heloman
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Re: Google-Analytics.com

Quote from: pierre_pierre
Thats your humble opinion, but it is just what Phorm were going to do for other ISP's, and they got a right load of flack about tracking programs being hidden from users

No. This is totally different to Phorm. Stordoff was right, see his earlier post where he said;
"it doesn't do much beyond what a normal server log could show.  Phorm creates a profile for you from all the websites you visit, whereas this profiles the SITE, based on all of it's users".
There is no comparison between this and Phorm.
pierre_pierre
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Basically Google Analytics is for companies to say 23% of our visitors use IE, 56% use Firefox, 1% use Safari (when it works) and the rest use Opera (for example).

I have the first three on my laptop - with XP.  Yesterday I was trying to print out the O2 (Mobile Phone) terms and conditions,  Firefox managed to get to item 11 on page one, IE got to item 9 and Safari printed three pages with all items.
still back to subject - ok it might be innocent, but why should I have to wait for a system fault that slowed down broadband before I found out it was there?  Another thread is praising PN's transparency