Google analytics - lazy load

Web Performance Optimization Discussions
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Hi
I am using the Google-supplied analytics code which I believed to be loading asyncronously.
I have code to load 3 ajax pages (which load after window.load via jquery) and show after the blue document complete line - see http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120222_JX_3AYSQ/1/details/
and
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120224_0Y_3BFF9/1/details/ (strange dns issue with Google Analytics there?)

Would using the same technique on the Google Analytics gain anything, such as maybe the initial render time?

Regards

Doc

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It shouldn’t impact the start render time but it might pull in your onload a bit. The risk is that the later you push your analytics the less coverage you get in your data so you’ll start missing page views, bails, etc - Just from user behavior.

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fwiw I have now set the Google analytics to this:-

var _gaq = _gaq || ;
_gaq.push([‘_setAccount’, ‘UA-12345678-1’]);
_gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’]);

($(window).load( function() {
var ga = document.createElement(‘script’); ga.type = ‘text/javascript’; ga.async = true;
ga.src = (‘https:’ == document.location.protocol ? ‘https://ssl’ : ‘http://www’) + ‘.google-analytics.com/ga.js’;
var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);
}));

The difference from the std Google code is ($(window).load( function() { and an extra closing rounded bracket on the last line.

It all loads after page load, it appears to be worth about 0.1 seconds to my site.