Thank you, Matt. And, BTW, I'm using ThinkPad too! :) Need to say GA really had become much faster lately. Thank you guys, it was really questionable for us to stay with GA or not exactly because of performance issue.
thank u matt...ur answers sessions are better now...tackling the question and going answering the neighboring questions thats caused by the initial q... great job!
yes I did and probably will give it a try again to see if it has made any difference, however till one is asking users to download another thing in order to see the page, there will be delays.
I personally believe that analytics etc. are best run in the background, rather than front end.
Site loading slowly is exactly the reason why I have stopped using Google Analytics, as I want the sites to be as fast as possible to the end users. Of course if you guys could come with something a little faster or a module for Apache etc. to ensure the processing is done in background, rather than on the frontend, it would be great for webmasters like me.