Speed up your website by caching Google's urchin.js locally, and then refreshing it @nightly with this here script. Some background: http://tramchase.com/blog/broken-urchintracker-calls-google-analytics-down

#!/bin/sh
# urchin.js local caching by Jamie Wilkinson <http://tramchase.com>

# config
DIR=/directory/where/you/want/js

# work
URCHIN=$DIR/urchin.js
wget http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js -O $URCHIN.tmp
if [ -s $URCHIN.tmp ]; then
        rm $URCHIN
        mv $URCHIN.tmp $URCHIN
        chmod 644 $URCHIN
fi

exit 0;