Recently , Google analytics has added a new feature to its system and that new feature is Site Speed Report . With site speed report , you can measure the page load time for a particular page of your blog or site . You can see pages are loading the fastest and which are slowest and you can also analyze the total speed of your blog or site along with various important dimensions . I think that this is a great feature of google analytics which helps us to know the speed problems of our blog and also give the required informations to solve it . This site speed report can really help us to improve our blog’s speed and traffic as well .
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How To Setup Site Speed ?
Its very easy to setup site speed so that we can get speed related reports in our google analytics account . In order to active site speed , all you have to do is to add an extra code to your old google analytics code .
Just paste this code along with your old google analytics code :-
_gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);
After adding this code , your whole code should be look like this :-
<script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-23213042-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);
(function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script>
What this report will show ?
After you completed editing the code and pasted the code in your blog or site , you will be able to see the
speed related report of your blog or site . Basically , the site speed shows pages of your blog as the primary
dimension . This site speed report makes a list of your pages accordingly from fastest loading pages to
slowest loading pages . In this site speed report you will get the following information of your blog or site :-
* Average page load time
* Pageviews
* Page load sample
* Bounce rate
Conclusion :- This site speed report is really a wonderful gift for the blog and site owners as it helps us to
improve our blog's speed and thus , it helps us to gain more traffic . We can verify that which pages are
loading the fastest and which are slowest , and take actions to fix it .
Quick Tip :- You can get this site speed report in the content section of your google analytics account .
