Tracking Page Load Time and Speed via Google Analytics

Loading Speed is considered one of the factor for ranking website on SERP (Search Engine Result Page). Knowing how the website is doing and what speed its loading on various browsers can be a critical information not only for it is a factor in SEO Ranking, it also helps in determining overall user experience a […]

Loading Speed is considered one of the factor for ranking website on SERP (Search Engine Result Page).

Knowing how the website is doing and what speed its loading on various browsers can be a critical information not only for it is a factor in SEO Ranking, it also helps in determining overall user experience a visitor is having in your website.

For sure the faster the website is loading the better user experience a visitor gets with your website.

Coming to main point now, wouldn't it be nice if it’s easy to track the loading speed of your website and find out how it’s performing. If you have a Google Analytics account and you are using in your website it can be done with a block of code. You just need to add the snippet below in your Google Analytics tracking code.

[code language="php"]
_gaq.push(['_trackPageLoadTime']);
[/code]

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Robin Thebe

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I am multi disciplined web developer based in Sydney focusing around website design, wordpress development, SEO, SEM and Email Marketing.