Backbone + Google Analytics for hash urls

gistfile1.js

// Inspired by Kendall Buchanan, (https://github.com/kendagriff)
// Rewritten for hash URLs by John Mileham
// MIT licence
// Version 0.0.1

(function() {


  var originalLoadUrl = Backbone.History.prototype.loadUrl;

  // This cleans up fragment the same way that loadUrl does as of Backbone 0.5.3
  Backbone.History.prototype.loadUrl = function(fragmentOverride) {
    var fragment = this.fragment = this.getFragment(fragmentOverride);
    if (window._gaq !== undefined) window._gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/' + fragment]);
    return originalLoadUrl.call(this, fragmentOverride);
  };

  var originalNavigate = Backbone.History.prototype.navigate;

  // This doesn't clean up fragment before sending to GA, so there may be normalization issues
  Backbone.History.prototype.navigate = function(fragment, triggerRoute) {
    if (!triggerRoute && window._gaq !== undefined) window._gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/' + fragment]);
    return originalNavigate.call(this, fragment, triggerRoute);
  };

}).call(this);