Async Google Analytics [Javascript Golf]

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Unfortunately, this may not be a valid Code-Golf question as it is likely Javascript only; however, since this is likely to be the only useful-in-the-real-world code-golf contest I'm going to go ahead and post it.


The Google Analytics Asyncronous Tracking snippet is used by many websites.

The script goes a little something like this:

<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>

Winner will be determined by the shortest RAW DEFLATE (there is 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.

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.

Some Rules:

  • The gaq || [] check is not required and should be removed.
  • must be protocol "aware" (http vs https).
  • must not pollute the global namespace (except for the _gaq var).
  • must be copy-pastable to any (X)HTML document, i.e., not dependent on the page's markup.
  • must work in all A-Grade browsers.
  • This does NOT have to pass JSLINT or any HTML validators.
  • must set the async flag.
  • must use this deflator for the byte count of the deflate-compressed output.

Tip:

  • Understand the basics of the DEFLATE algorithm. And more importantly, LZ77 compression.


UDPATE 216/275

Since my original version has been beaten I'll go ahead and post it here:
Note: this has a bug where async gets set to false for all "http" requests

(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")
9 Answers

This might be cheating although technically it obeys all the rules. ;)

<script>var _gaq=[["_setAccount","UA-XXXXX-X"],["_trackPageview"]];</script><script src="//www.google-analytics.com/ga.js" async></script>
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