diff --git a/config.js b/config.js
index 209cc84e7b..10207182cd 100644
--- a/config.js
+++ b/config.js
@@ -107,5 +107,12 @@ var config = { // eslint-disable-line no-unused-vars
         // How long we're going to wait, before going back to P2P after
         // the 3rd participant has left the conference (to filter out page reload)
         //backToP2PDelay: 5
+    },
+    // Information about the jitsi-meet instance we are connecting to, including the
+    // user region as seen by the server.
+    deploymentInfo: {
+        //shard: "shard1",
+        //region: "europe",
+        //userRegion: "asia"
     }
 };
diff --git a/local.html b/local.html
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb2..0000000000
diff --git a/modules/analytics/analytics.js b/modules/analytics/analytics.js
index d42440a64a..25007e4102 100644
--- a/modules/analytics/analytics.js
+++ b/modules/analytics/analytics.js
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * Load the integration of a third-party analytics API such as Google
  * Analytics. Since we cannot guarantee the quality of the third-party service
  * (e.g. their server may take noticeably long time to respond), it is in our
- * best interest (in the sense that the intergration of the analytics API is
+ * best interest (in the sense that the integration of the analytics API is
  * important to us but not enough to allow it to prevent people from joining
  * a conference) to download the API asynchronously. Additionally, Google
  * Analytics will download its implementation asynchronously anyway so it makes
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ class Analytics {
             Promise.all(handlersPromises).then(values => {
                 values.forEach(el => {
                     if(el.type === "error") {
-                        console.log("Fialed to load " + el.url);
+                        console.log("Failed to load " + el.url);
                         console.error(el.error);
                     }
                 });
@@ -122,15 +122,14 @@ class Analytics {
                 if (group) {
                     permanentProperties.group = group;
                 }
-                /**
-                 * optionally include local deployment information,
-                 * window.jitsiDeploymentInfo defined outside of application
-                 * to use, override contents in local.html
-                **/
-                if (window.jitsiDeploymentInfo) {
-                    for (var key in window.jitsiDeploymentInfo) {
-                        permanentProperties[key] 
-                            = window.jitsiDeploymentInfo[key];
+                 // optionally include local deployment information based on
+                 // the contents of window.config.deploymentInfo
+                if (config.deploymentInfo) {
+                    for (let key in config.deploymentInfo) {
+                        if (config.deploymentInfo.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
+                            permanentProperties[key]
+                                = config.deploymentInfo[key];
+                        }
                     }
                 }