GilbertZ
05-12-2007, 02:27 PM
I ran into a fascinating article today on askapache.com/webmaster/faster-google-analytics-with-a-local-urchinjs.html (anchor link was: speeding up analytics). I don't know if any Google officials post here, but I'm sure they follow it...so questions:
1. Does google condone taking the actions suggested here?
2. Is the following a mistake on Google's part? And if so, will they correct it?
Another big big reason is that even though Cache-Control headers are correctly set by google-analytics when serving urchin.js, Instead of responding to an If-Modified-Since header correctly with a 304 Not Modified header, indicating the file has not been modified, google-analytics instead returns the entire urchin.js file again, thus rendering the cache-control void.
1. Does google condone taking the actions suggested here?
2. Is the following a mistake on Google's part? And if so, will they correct it?
Another big big reason is that even though Cache-Control headers are correctly set by google-analytics when serving urchin.js, Instead of responding to an If-Modified-Since header correctly with a 304 Not Modified header, indicating the file has not been modified, google-analytics instead returns the entire urchin.js file again, thus rendering the cache-control void.