Matt Cutts of Google has previously stated that whilst they may list urls in your robots.txt they will not download them. Google webmaster tools says different. http://stewartmedia.biz/myblog/
You know mate not everybody listens to MC, a lot of people think he lies, he lies!! The Dr Cutts Google propaganda machine. It's fair to say I don't agree with that view of our mate Matt and hang on every word he says.
@pbuntine That explains some of it. Excellent point on logged in users. Data collection could also be happening via the toolbar. Time to run some tests! Thanks :)
I believe that Google Labs Site performance retrieves download time from users. They don't download the page themselves. I don't know how they do this, but the result is that even pages that are only available to authenticated administrators are included in the performance evaluation. This is really bad when some of those admin pages include slow processes.
You can remove these pages from the evaluation by removing the Google Analytics code.
@HueyLewisRocks Neither do I but I try to be polite in publilc :)
jimboot 1 year ago
You know mate not everybody listens to MC, a lot of people think he lies, he lies!! The Dr Cutts Google propaganda machine. It's fair to say I don't agree with that view of our mate Matt and hang on every word he says.
HueyLewisRocks 1 year ago
@pbuntine That explains some of it. Excellent point on logged in users. Data collection could also be happening via the toolbar. Time to run some tests! Thanks :)
jimboot 1 year ago
Jim
I believe that Google Labs Site performance retrieves download time from users. They don't download the page themselves. I don't know how they do this, but the result is that even pages that are only available to authenticated administrators are included in the performance evaluation. This is really bad when some of those admin pages include slow processes.
You can remove these pages from the evaluation by removing the Google Analytics code.
Hope this helps.
Phil
pbuntine 1 year ago