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The side effects of Analytic tools
  icon1 Brian Zhang Larsen | icon2 analytics, Microsoft, web | icon4 12 15th, 2007| icon31 Comment »

When it doesn’t load, the page halts. I have several times seen the effect of the popular free analytic tool Google analytics’ unreachability, which often causes sites to stop loading entirely. Below is the same effect of a Webtrends breakdown on Microsoft.com. (It was like that for several minutes, and it didn’t redirect to the actual download).

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