OSX Safari Frame Load Interrupted

Question

I have a basic HTML website (with some javascript) using a simple anchor tag to download a file like so:

Answer 1

If you always want to get the ga event then the hitCallback is likely the only way to go until whatever is wrong with Safari is fixed. I use a similar pattern to send a GA event from a page in an app which is just a redirect after a whole load of database stuff has been executed in rails. There is no noticeable lag from adding the javascript redirect into the callback. However I am not sure how to initiate the download from javascript off the top of my head.

ga('send','event','Download','MexmlSample','MexmlSample-1.0', {
   hitCallback: function(){
   initiateDownload();
   })

I am not aware of any need to use the setTimeout() for pattern in this instance.