hiro333 / backbone.analytics

Simple Backbone and Google Analytics Integration

Backbone Analytics

A small object to manage the integration of google analytics into a backbone application. It is meant to be simple and implementation agnostic. Depends on Underscore.js and Backbone.js. For more detailed documentation see the docs

Example

 <script src="/js/underscore.js"></script>
 <script src="/js/backbone.js"></script>
 <script src="/js/backbone.analytics.js"></script>
 <script>
   window.App = window.App || {};
   window.App.ga = new Backbone.Analytics({code: 'UA-12345678-9'});
 </script>

Usage

This object is meant to be simple and flexible so you can use it however works best for your needs and implementation. I prefer to extend the object and use it to write methods that contain my specific analytics integrations. However, you can also use it as is.

Option Defaults

• setAccount: true
• initialPageview: true
• trackNavigate: true
• loadScript: true
• debug: false

Syntactic Sugar

Backbone.Analytics provides a few convience methods that wrap around common google analytics objects and interactions including queue, push, setAccount, trackPageview, trackEvent, trackSocial, and setCustomVar

Debug Mode

Enabling debug mode will include the debug version of the google analytics script instead of the standard script. This will log debug information to the console. Enable debug mode by passing debug: true

Extending Backbone.Analytics

Extending Backbone.Analytics can help you manage and maintain your domain specific analytics interactions in a single location.