Does Google Analytics Slow Down Your Website? We Ripped It Out of Smithers—and It Went Like a Speeding Bullet

For years, we did what everyone else does. Google Analytics.Google Tag Manager.Cookie banners.Tracking scripts.Heatmaps. All the “must-have” stuff. Then one day for Smithers, we got fed up and ripped the lot out. And honestly? The website went like a speeding bullet. Desktop felt faster. But mobile? That’s where we really noticed it. Pages loaded quicker. […]