Tracking Google Analytics Page Views with AngularJS

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()});