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[sidedraft]

Same here, intermittently. Yesterday my broadband was out all day, so I cranked up my 56k modem and dialed in. Once it renegotiated to 48k, it was better that iHub has been, at times, today.

[IH Dan (Retired)]

Only a geek could tell you and I'm not one. Maybe one of them will chime in here later.

[IH Geek [Meatloaf]]

Google Analytics is a statistics program in wide use. I'd be very surprised if no place else you visit uses it.

http://www.google.com/analytics/

While it mentions marketing, it's not directly tied to the delivery of ads. It's mainly statistics - lets the marketing geeks see what pages are most popular, the effect of using different widgets and gizmos, etc.

Occasionally I see reports of slowdowns with google analytics but it's usually transient.

Note to Dave - we should consider hosting the google analytics script locally. That's probably the most reliable way to speed it up.