Only if everyone loads it the same way. But there are lots of different ways to load GA; the only reason _gaq.push() isn't scary and doesn't raise the specter o

Only if everyone loads it the same way. But there are lots of different ways to load GA; the only reason _gaq.push() isn't scary and doesn't raise the specter of race conditions is because of the 'spoofing' GA does. There are LOTS of different versions of the GA snippet floating around the internet; the assumptions this configuration makes would only work for some of them. For example, some people load GA like this: <script async src="//google-analytics.com/ga.js"> </script> <script> var _gaq = _gaq || []; ... </script> Folks who do this will break at minimum with older browsers that don't support async; not sure what it would do with async support, though. It seems unnecessarily risky.