Wah! Google ate my baby!

I have Google alerts set up for various things I am interested in. One of which is Google Analytics. Now, The big G had a routing issue last week apparently. Personally I didn't notice anything - perhaps it was localised? Anyway, the main subject of conversation in my Google Analytics alert was how GA being 'down' stopped sites working. Even the irksome rag 'The London Paper' covered the story with a quote from one poor soul who couldn't use his Internet Banking because the site was waiting for Google Analytics. Now I pity this guys because he is clearly using a substandard site.

Why is the site waiting for GA? In order for GA to do it's thing, it needs to download ga.js or urchin.js from Google...assuming Google is there is course. So in the unlikely event of Google being slow or down

PUT YOUR GA INCLUDE LINE IN THE FOOTER

'course if you wanna get real smart, you'll make sure your site is easily configurable to handle third party system outages. Can your site gracefully degrade or does it die in a puddle of it's own piss as most sites seem to causing days of misplaced whining about Google?

Crumbs, the media frenzy is almost at the 'MP's expenses are wrong!' level of froth...