does Google analytics make a major effect on time to download a static web page?

Question

I understand that by simply adding a script to the end of the body tag of a html document one makes it processable by Google analytics. My question is, is this likely to hav

Answer 1

Personally I really can't see that there would be much of a difference at all, your browser would cache it after the first request and use it there after on each other page.

The script is loaded at the very bottom of the page as well so everything else should already be loaded.