Using Google Analytics Asynchronously

Jan 12, 2010 google javascript

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I came across the following link on google’s code pages:

http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/asyncTracking.html

It basically details the asynchronous loading of google analytics. I found this to be a very cool addition to an already powerful package that I rely on.

However, one thing that I haven’t been able to successfully figure out. What happens when you want to load in two instances or two different accounts? On one of my sites, I use my own google analytics account plus the clients. This tracks the traffic fine with the non-asynchronous method. You simply make a new instance of the ga object and assign a new ID to it. However, can I do the same thing with this async method? I’m kind of wary to try it because I don’t want to lose any data.

Anyone have any experience or have any links to where I can find this detail?