Damn you google analytics!

My internet connection has been really crappy of late, so it doesn't help me to notice that even when it does work, pages occasionally have difficulty loading, and it's almost always the same reason: the page is waiting to hear from google analytics before it will load. I have no idea why so many pages are linked into google (well, probably ads), but I think it very poor web design if your page depends on an outside source in order to load. This is particularly foolish when it's not even integral to your page. Gah!