The new version of Google Analytics (beta version for to all Analytics users) have a new feature, the Site Speed report. You know that to improve the performance of your pages, you first need to measure and diagnose the speed of a page. That’s why Google presented a new tool with the Site Speed report you can in very easy way measure the page load time across your site.
Uses for the Site Speed Report
- Content: Which landing pages are slowest?
- Traffic sources: Which campaigns correspond to faster page loads overall?
- Visitor: How does page load time vary across geographies?
- Technology: Does your site load faster or slower for different browsers?
By default, page speed measurement is turned off, so you’ll only see 0’s in the Site Speed report until you’ve enabled it. To start measuring site speed, you need to make a small change to your Analytics tracking code. You have to do only one small change, just insert one additional method:
_gaq.push (['_trackPageLoadTime']);
if you are using asynchronous code (the default for some time) or
pageTracker._trackPageLoadTime ();
In the case when you use the “old” tracking code.
If the speed of the site is configured correctly and you’ve updated your tracking code, within a few hours after changes are posted will be able to read the data from the report.