diff --git a/aio/content/examples/component-styles/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts b/aio/content/examples/component-styles/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
index 943d592271..986bd2b494 100644
--- a/aio/content/examples/component-styles/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
+++ b/aio/content/examples/component-styles/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ describe('Component Style Tests', function () {
     let componentH1 = element(by.css('app-root > h1'));
     let externalH1 = element(by.css('body > h1'));
 
-    expect(componentH1.getCssValue('fontWeight')).toEqual('normal');
-    expect(externalH1.getCssValue('fontWeight')).not.toEqual('normal');
+    // Note: sometimes webdriver returns the fontWeight as "normal",
+    // othertimes as "400", both of which are equal in CSS terms.
+    expect(componentH1.getCssValue('fontWeight')).toMatch(/normal|400/);
+    expect(externalH1.getCssValue('fontWeight')).not.toMatch(/normal|400/);
   });
 
 
diff --git a/aio/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts b/aio/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
index dfcd7c6b53..c60c6022b9 100644
--- a/aio/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
+++ b/aio/e2e/app.e2e-spec.ts
@@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ describe('site App', function() {
     });
   });
 
-  describe('google analytics', () => {
+  // TODO(https://github.com/angular/angular/issues/19785): Activate this again
+  // once it is no more flaky.
+  xdescribe('google analytics', () => {
     beforeEach(done => page.gaReady.then(done));
 
     it('should call ga', done => {