Forum:Substing of all sidebar material?

Hello folks. I have what I hope is a simple question (apologies if "simple" turns out to mean "not worth trying because technically intractable or contractually forbidden")...

Would it be feasible to somehow "subst" the google ads, features, news, etc., and everything else in the sidebars, e.g. updating them only when an article is edited instead of on every single page load? AFAICT the slowest step in a page load, by far, is www.googleanalytics.com, which can triple the load time over my dialup line (assuming I've got images turned off). I can see where some links might become outdated on rarely edited pages; maybe an automatic refresh once a week or so? Ryan W 18:35, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The code that's actually slowing down your loading is Google's JavaScript code. But because this is Googles code, and we can't remove it, or modif it, it can't be changed. ~Dantman(talk) tricks May 30, 2007 @ 19:28 (UTC)


 * AdBlock is the solution :) --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) -@WikiDex 19:53, 30 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Somehow I don't think Angela would sign off on that. :>    Ryan W 06:46, 31 May 2007 (UTC)


 * * checks HTML *  You know, I think you're probably right.  Oh well; thanks for the prompt response anyway.    Ryan W 06:46, 31 May 2007 (UTC)


 * The code at www.googleanalytics.com isn't actually (specifically) for the ads, it is mostly for statistics. You can disable javascript, or possibly just add www.googleanalytics.com to your .hosts file (if it is seriously hampering your pageloads) --Splarka (talk) 06:54, 31 May 2007 (UTC)