I started noticing some strange layout loading problems on my sites.

Namely, these problems specifically involve my entire site loading approximately 25 to 50px vertically lower than it should.

The topbar main navigation should be hugging the top, right? And before I installed Google Analytics, it was. All the time. And then I installed Google Analytics and it wasn’t anymore – not consistently anyways.

So yeah.

After experimenting with some coding and doing some research, my conclusion is that because the Google Analytics is installed in the header of the page (meaning, it loads before any of my site contents do), its loading can sometimes interfere with the rendering of my website.

Sorry about that everyone!

Reloading the page always does the trick and resets the layout back to normal as the Analytics has already had a chance to load on the first load and therefore doesn’t and can’t interfere with the reload.

I will continue to investigate a way to solve this issue, but until then, I thought I would share a bit of news.

~ EMG