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copied!<p><em>Unfortunately, this may not be a valid Code-Golf question as it is likely Javascript only; however, since</em> <strong>this is likely to be the only useful-in-the-real-world code-golf contest</strong> <em>I'm going to go ahead and post it.</em></p> <hr> <p>The <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html" rel="noreferrer">Google Analytics Asyncronous Tracking</a> snippet is used by many websites.</p> <p>The script goes a little something like this:</p> <pre><code><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })(); </script> </code></pre> <p>Winner will be determined by the shortest RAW DEFLATE (there <em>is</em> a difference between HTTP 1.1 DEFLATE (aka zlib) and RAW DEFLATE) compressed code by byte-count that will load and initialize Async Google Analytics on a page.</p> <p>In the case of a tie, winner will be determined by raw character count. If it we still have a tie we'll decide by last edit/time submitted.</p> <p>Some Rules:</p> <ul> <li><strong>The <code>gaq || []</code> check is not required and <em>should</em> be removed.</strong></li> <li>must be protocol "aware" (http vs https).</li> <li>must not pollute the global namespace (except for the <code>_gaq</code> var).</li> <li>must be copy-pastable to any (X)HTML document, i.e., not dependent on the page's markup.</li> <li>must work in all <a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/gbs/" rel="noreferrer">A-Grade browsers</a>.</li> <li>This does <strong>NOT</strong> have to pass JSLINT or any HTML validators.</li> <li>must set the <code>async</code> flag.</li> <li>must use <a href="http://www.vervestudios.co/projects/compression-tests/snippet-deflator" rel="noreferrer">this deflator</a> for the byte count of the deflate-compressed output.</li> </ul> <p>Tip:</p> <ul> <li>Understand the basics of the <a href="http://zlib.net/feldspar.html" rel="noreferrer">DEFLATE algorithm</a>. And more importantly, LZ77 compression.</li> </ul> <hr> <hr> <h2>UDPATE 216/275</h2> <p>Since my original version has been beaten I'll go ahead and post it here:<br> <strong>Note: this has a bug where async gets set to false for all "http" requests</strong></p> <pre><code>(function(d,t,g){_gaq=[["_setAccount","UA-XXXXX-X"],["_trackPageview"]];g=d.createElement(t);g.src=(g.async=location.protocol[5]?"//ssl":"//www")+".google-analytics.com/ga.js";(t=d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0]).parentNode.insertBefore(g,t)})(document,"script") </code></pre>

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