We were trying to template google analytics and make it part of our requirejs setup. When we did what we thought was obvious to wrap it in a module and declare a dependency on it, it seemed to fail quite miserably.
The trick was that we missed that you needed to export a global variable. This means in the javascript file initialising google analytics we had to add the following code block
var registerGoogleAnalytics = function(accountId) {
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
if (window) {
window._gaq = _gaq; // export as global
}
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', accountId]);
_gaq.push(['_trackPageview']);
// rest of google analytics initialiser script...
}
Some links that helped us working this out:
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/-wzmrVpsOTo
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9738815/google-analytics-gif-request-not-sent
- http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/analytics/MmT2237oOpA
