What are the main advantages of inline instead of external JavaScript for analytics codes?

Question

JavaScript

Many large sites place analytics codes directly on the page before the closing body tag. The question arose - how is such, at first glance, a lazy way better than the logic of analytics in an external script?

Answer 1

It is impossible to block the loading of scripts, for example. You can only disable it on the site itself.

Answer 2

Not all browsers understand async/defer, so a guaranteed way to make the download non-blocking is to trigger it with JS.

Answer 3

most likely it is needed so that it is considered only when the page is loaded , and not just the page was started loading or even a separate
ps script is a good way to access the dom without getting (depending on the speed of loading) errors about not found element