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He's probably referring to this code segment
Code:
<!-- google analytics added by tyme 2010-02-26 -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9187093-3");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>
If you're simply concerned about GA in and of itself, you're free to block it. However, half the intarwebz uses GA so I don't understand why you're heaping scorn on TFL specifically. GA-tracked sites include such hives of scum and villainy as:
As for "why GA?" it's something of an experiment. TFL runs a local web log analyzer too, but awstats' cgi interface is slow as crap. And, if awstats breaks for some reason, GA provides backup stats even if they're less accurate. And multiple statistics data sources are always better than one.
So, can we please dispense with the "OMG TFL is polluting our precious bodily fluids" hysteria?
Oh, and cfiben, TFL staff have been selling TFL's traffic stats to George Soros and Nancy Pelosi and the Brady Bunch for years. Why on Earth would second-hand aggregate statistics like the ones from GA be preferable to raw statistics right out of the server logs? The point is, traffic stats are there to be sold to anti-gun wackos and 3rd world country dictators and downtrodden revolutionaries*, even without GA javascript there to alert you to the nefarious plot. GA is completely irrelevant to those concerns.
* You read that right. Expect advertisements for FARC-EP and Shining Path, not to mention exiled Nigerian royalty with hundreds of millions to move offshore with your help, to appear on TFL RSN.
As for "why GA?" it's something of an experiment. TFL runs a local web log analyzer too, but awstats' cgi interface is slow as crap. And, if awstats breaks for some reason, GA provides backup stats even if they're less accurate. And multiple statistics data sources are always better than one.
So, can we please dispense with the "OMG TFL is polluting our precious bodily fluids" hysteria?
Oh, and cfiben, TFL staff have been selling TFL's traffic stats to George Soros and Nancy Pelosi and the Brady Bunch for years. Why on Earth would second-hand aggregate statistics like the ones from GA be preferable to raw statistics right out of the server logs? The point is, traffic stats are there to be sold to anti-gun wackos and 3rd world country dictators and downtrodden revolutionaries*, even without GA javascript there to alert you to the nefarious plot. GA is completely irrelevant to those concerns.
* You read that right. Expect advertisements for FARC-EP and Shining Path, not to mention exiled Nigerian royalty with hundreds of millions to move offshore with your help, to appear on TFL RSN.