As you may have noticed, at least in Europe Anaytics seems to be down slowing sites down to a crawl. There are are couple of things I have managed to do to sort this out, wanted to share them. I have no idea if a couple of them are within the TOS but they have got the sites working again in the short term. Will revert back to normal once it is fixed.
1. (Googles Recommended Fix) Move the tracking code to the bottom of the page. This will mean at least the page will load before the Javascript times out.
2. Change the code from
<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
to
<script src="http://google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
3. Download the urchin.js file from [
google-analytics.com...] and host it locally. Then you can call it using something like
<script src="/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
If you do this make sure you redownload the file regularly in case they make ammendments in it.
