[LINK] How Websites load

[Richard Chirgwin]

Alex - thanks! So it IS just slack developers.

Jan - my problem is that if I block the trackers, I won't see what 
people are doing! I could simply block ads, but then I won't know whose 
ad servers are being pains in the backside!

Cheers,
Richard

On 20/06/12 8:07 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Richard Chirgwin
> <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>> Which brings me to the question: is there any good reason for the
>> page-stall? Could a good Web designer say "ok, show them content, let
>> them navigate while we backfill all our measurement trackers"? If just
>> one of the servers is slow to respond, it may well be thirty seconds
>> before you can actually USE the damn pages that insist on all this drivel.
> Yes they can: http://www.electrictoolbox.com/load-javascript-files-asynchronously/
>
> Google even suggest this for their tracking:
> https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/asyncTracking
>