Dropping Google Analytics

Within the past half year, a lot of attention has been given to the excessive bloat that is present in many websites. This has been in concert with discussions over ad blocking, where extensions such as Ghostery block trackers from non-advertising sources as well.

In light of this conversation, why has this blog continued to run Google Analytics? The additional JavaScript adds 42 kilobytes and 0.7 seconds to the page load time. All to collect data that (to be perfectly honest) was never really looked at anyhow. With Google being the only one benefiting from this data collection, the scripts are now gone from this site.

Enjoy this blog knowing that it is now both quicker and more private.