Alternative async tracking snippet

[p0358]

How about adding something like "Alternative async tracking snippet" from https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/ to docs?

I believe it could look something like this:

<script>
window.galite=window.galite||function(){(galite.q=galite.q||[]).push(arguments)};
galite('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto');
galite('send', 'pageview');
</script>
<script async src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/ga-lite@2/dist/ga-lite.min.js"></script>

(caution: didn't test this)
Also, why doesn't it save the time on creating the placeholder galite fucntion? Does it not report page load time?

[jehna]

Sounds good, this could be a part of the README.

No, ga-lite does not currently report page load times. Opened issue #46 for that.

[Jos512]

This alternative syncing code is working for me.

Is there a particular reason why it hasn't been added to the README in the last months? I don't know enough JavaScript to know whether this is a good approach for production or not. I'd rather not use something that's 'frowned upon'. 😄

[jehna]

The reason is only that the loading script is subject to small changes when #46 is implemented, so I haven't added it in yet 😄

The script from @p0358 translates directly to the current script found in readme, so it's perfectly safe to use.

[Jos512]

Thanks for your quick reply. Good to know this code approach is good to use.

(Also thanks for your work on the ga-lite project as a whole. It's pretty amazing. 😄 )