Title: asynchronous javascript for wp stats?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# asynchronous javascript for wp stats?

 *  [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/asynchronous-javascript-for-wp-stats/)
 * google recently released an [updated version of the analytics javascript snippet which is completely asynchronous](http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html),
   meaning it doesn’t impact page loading/ rendering any more.
 * there’s some great info about the impact of javascript-widgets and tracking code
   [on steve souders’ blog](http://www.stevesouders.com/p3pc/).
 * any chance wordpress will follow suit and provide us an update to wp stats which
   is completely asynchronous as well?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/)

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 *  [JeanPaulH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djr/)
 * (@djr)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/asynchronous-javascript-for-wp-stats/#post-1428844)
 * I would LOVE to have this as well, even more since the stats.wordpress.com included.
   js and .gif file (the smiley) is adding a lot of latency (respectively +500ms
   and 727ms) to my page load and thus blocking rendering of my pages.
 *  Thread Starter [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/asynchronous-javascript-for-wp-stats/#post-1428904)
 * I also mailed wordpress support for this issue and got a reply which states:
 * > I’ve brought this suggestion to the attention of our team, but I can’t promise
   > any kind of delivery on it at this time. We *do* currently load the JS for 
   > stats as late as possible to prevent inhibiting page rendering.
 * the problem is that even if the javascript is loaded as late as possible, it 
   still does slow down page rendering.
 * let’s hope that someone at auttomatic looks at [steve souders’ blog](http://www.stevesouders.com/p3pc/)
   to gain some insight in the performance benefits of loading javascript asynchronously.
 *  [JeanPaulH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/djr/)
 * (@djr)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/asynchronous-javascript-for-wp-stats/#post-1428905)
 * Thanks futta. At least it’s on their list now. Let’s hope for the best.
 * PS I love Steve’s blog. Learned so much about web performance.
 *  Thread Starter [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * (@futtta)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/asynchronous-javascript-for-wp-stats/#post-1428911)
 * this has just become extra important with [google confirming that from now on speed has an impact on ranking](http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html).

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 * [asynchronous](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/asynchronous/)
 * [performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/performance/)
 * [Stats](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/stats/)

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 * Last reply from: [Frank Goossens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/futtta/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/asynchronous-javascript-for-wp-stats/#post-1428911)
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