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Or block ga entirely in your browser for 100% speed recovery against tracking.

But seriously, GA will still work if you add DEFER and make it load only after page load. Then there is zero impact on the page.

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You're missing the point. I'm not worried about the rendering time here. I'm worried about the HTTP request size. And even though block GA fix the issue to you it's still present for others.

But then GA might not record that someone loaded the page and clicked a link to navigate away, before the page was done loading.

So what? Why should you count this case?

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