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put the script at the bottom of the page

I never understood why onload and all the frameworks implementing domloaded exist, script tags generally should go at the end anyway, and there is no problems with dom availability.

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This is fine, if you're OK with missing bounces. If the page takes a long time to load, or hangs, then it's likely the user will close the window before the script runs.

I don't think he was necessarily suggesting putting GA at the bottom of the page. I read this as, "put the DOM ready detection" at the end of the page.

When you're writing a third party script you don't have control over where in the page someone will put it. Having code to detect DOM ready is useful in these cases.

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