You don't want to force your link to depend on receiving a successful response from the server, because that would be a really bad user experience when it does

You don't want to force your link to depend on receiving a successful response from the server, because that would be a really bad user experience when it does break. You should opt to lose your analytics when things break instead. To do that, you'd need to set a maximum timeout to wait for the response anyways, so then it's just a (valid) laziness call. If you _absolutely_ need the best performance then go with a success handler _and_ a maximum wait timeout. But realistically you want the maximum timeout to be ~300ms anyways, so why bother with the extra code. Regardless, it would be nice to be able to pass a callback (whether it's based on a timeout or receiving a response) right to the `complete` method. Not sure why you're getting downvoted.