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The suggestion says to cache the js file for the analytics tracker, not to remove it.

• Fuffidish 11y ago
  Good luck setting caching headers on an external resource.
• latch 11y ago
  Are you being funny? If not, how do you suggest they do that?
• ZeroGravitas 11y ago
  It's hosted by Google, so they control the cache time.
  • eli 11y ago
    You actually can host the Google Analytics JS file locally, though I'm not sure it's an officially supported configuration.
    • danieltillett 11y ago
      Do you have any resources on doing this?
      • codedokode 11y ago
        You could probably proxy a file through your own server and add any headers you like. But in that case browser cannot use a version of a script cached at other sites.
      • rgbrenner 11y ago
        it's definitely not a supported config: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032389?hl=en https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1032389?hl=en But you can download it, and host it locally. Just update it periodically. As you can see from the changelog, it only changes every few months: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/changelog?csw=1 https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection... Google actually takes a few days to deploy updates to all of their servers. So a daily script to update it on your server would be fine.
        • danieltillett 11y ago
          Thanks for this.
  • StavrosK 11y ago
    Why do they only cache it for two hours? Do they want changes to be that quick to take?