I’ve noticed that whenever a site fails to load, it’s almost invariably because it’s hung trying to connect to Google analytics. I know there’s blog visitor-porn, but it is seriously obnoxious. Does it really matter how many people are visiting your site? Really? Really really?
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I notice it loads on Scatterplot (WP.com), but to my knowledge we have no way of turning it off. If there is a way to use it to get the kind of Google Analytics info that blog-visitor-porn aficionados truly obsess over — the IPs of individual readers, the number of unique IP readers — I don’t know how to access it.
Interesting – it appears that WordPress automatically adds google analytics to its own wordpress sites, “to monitor the domain in ways that provide us with useful information to benefit the service we offer.” I guess another instance of free not really being free?