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Not 100% comparable but of course the shortest JS/GA are no JS/GA.

Additional benefit: privacy

If you leave out the cookies as well, you don't even need to ask for allowing cookies.

I use this approach for my cryptocurrency portfolio site [1], comments welcome

I personally am 100% that site should work without JS (as well). Some UX might demand dom manipulations, so at least personally of having both. And for excluding GA - that's firstly a topic of specific business and it's philosophy. Technically if you collect server logs - you still have to get user's consent probably.

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