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shouldn't the API calls you make to a tracking service be done in such away that they would not effect your application whether they're available or not available? Analytics is nice, but not having it shouldn't cause your whole app to lock up right? Kind of similar to say a caching infrastructure - if memcached goes down your app just slows down, but doesn't crash right?

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Their documentation is either wrong or misleading:

Basic Javascript integration

We load the library onto the page asynchronously, which keeps your website loading quickly even if placed in the <head> of the page.

In our case just commenting out the library load solved all our issues.

Yea, the problem is that making actual calls to their API servers is taking a while.

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