Tracking Google Analytics Page Views with AngularJS

Question

If you're using ng-view in your Angular app you can listen for the $viewContentLoaded event and push a tracking event to Google Analytics.

Assuming you've set up your tracking code in your main index.html file with a name of var _gaq and MyCtrl is what you've defined in the ng-controller directive.

function MyCtrl($scope, $location, $window) {
  $scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function(event) {
    $window._gaq.push(['_trackPageView', $location.url()]);
  });
}

UPDATE: for new version of google-analytics use this one

function MyCtrl($scope, $location, $window) {
  $scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function(event) {
    $window.ga('send', 'pageview', { page: $location.url() });
  });
}

When a new view is loaded in AngularJS, Google Analytics does not count it as a new page load. Fortunately there is a way to manually tell GA to log a url as a new pageview.

_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '<url>']); would do the job, but how to bind that with AngularJS?

Here is a service which you could use:

(function(angular) { 

  angular.module('analytics', ['ng']).service('analytics', [
    '$rootScope', '$window', '$location', function($rootScope, $window, $location) {
      var track = function() {
        $window._gaq.push(['_trackPageview', $location.path()]);
      };
      $rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', track);
    }
  ]);

}(window.angular));

When you define your angular module, include the analytics module like so:

angular.module('myappname', ['analytics']);

UPDATE:

You should use the new Universal Google Analytics tracking code with:

$window.ga('send', 'pageview', {page: $location.url()});

app.run(function ($rootScope, $location) {
    $rootScope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function(){
        ga('send', 'pageview', $location.path());
    });
});

Just a quick addition. If you're using the new analytics.js, then:

var track = function() {     
 ga('send', 'pageview', {'page': $location.path()});                
};

Additionally one tip is that google analytics will not fire on localhost. So if you are testing on localhost, use the following instead of the default create (full documentation)

ga('create', 'UA-XXXX-Y', {'cookieDomain': 'none'});