I just noticed that Google Analytics has the capability of tracking Internet connection speed (dialup, cable, DSL, T1 etc). Would be extremely useful if we could do this on Mint too!
Pepper to monitor Internet connection speed
Hmm, I wonder if Analytics actually tracks that or if Google is leveraging data collected by their other services. The only way (that I know of) to determine someone’s download speed is to send them a non-trivial download (eg. a larger image file) and see how long it takes to load completely. That would have a negative impact on your site’s page load time—which is why I suspect they are simply importing data from another source, mapping IPs to requests on Google Images perhaps?
Or they could see how long from the first image on the page is loaded, to the last page. Plus they use their spiders to know exactly how big your page is…together that could potentially show page speed.
However tracking the first request and the last…and when they complete…is probably not even possible using javascript.
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