On: maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

[luckylion]

No, google-analytics.com is where analytics is being served from and sends tracking-requests to.

[easrng → luckylion]

It also connects to https://stats.g.doubleclick.net/j/collect

[luckylion → easrng]

I believe that's only if the GA account is connected to an Ads account (or set up to collect demographics, I think). By itself, GA will only use https://www.google-analytics.com/j/collect (or /g/collect for GA4).