Speedtest: Google Analytics plugins

I have just tested 3 different Google Analytics plugins for WordPress. The purpose of the test: To see which plugins had the lowest overhead. The plugins tested:

The test was done on a fresh install of WordPress, with the default theme and on the index page. I used Firefox with Firebug for the testing. I did 5 refreshes of the page.

No plugins Google Analyticator Google Analytics for Wordpress WP Google Analytics
755ms 1.21s 1.18s 823ms
725ms 1.13s 1.22s 758ms
747ms 915ms 1.15s 744ms
746ms 1.06s 2.21s 618ms
760ms 931ms 1.03s 753ms

Conclusion
WP Google Analytics is the winner!

This entry was written by bnry, posted on April 21, 2008 at 4:00 pm, filed under Tests and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

5 Comments

  1. Peter
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:12 am | Permalink

    Nice to know! :)

  2. gravejester
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:13 am | Permalink

    I second that! Great job!

  3. admin
    Posted April 22, 2008 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    Thanks! It’s not really a great deal of difference, but nice to know perhaps?

  4. Joost de Valk
    Posted April 26, 2008 at 7:26 pm | Permalink

    how did you test this? And have you taken into account that GA for WP loads in the head for accuracy reasons? It’s good to test stuff like this, but do make sure you know what you’re comparing… These plugins have different functionality and design decisions…

  5. admin
    Posted April 27, 2008 at 9:27 am | Permalink

    The only thing I have focused on in this test is the speed of loading the page with the plugin activated. All plugin-settings are at default values.

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