Google Analytics don't seem to be firing - angularjs

Question

I've tried to look around many threads here around GA, I feel like I've done what's required. My site consist of HTML5 and angular.js, the page is structured roughly as follow (through ng-include)
index.html
|-header
--|-navigation
|-content
|-footer
when a link from navigation bar is clicked, the content will change (partials page in angular), header, footer stays the same.
The last script tag in my < head > is as follow (inside index.html)
<script type="text/javascript">
var globalLanguage = 'en';
// GA tracking variable
var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']];
</script>
and at the bottom part of index.html, before the closing < / body > tag:
<script type="text/javascript">
(function(d, t) {
var g = d.createElement(t), s = d.getElementsByTagName(t)[0];
g.async = 1;
g.src = '//www.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
g.type = 'text/javascript';
s.parentNode.insertBefore(g, s);
}(document, 'script'));
</script>
All my angular controller function, call a common function as described in Tracking Google Analytics Page Views with Angular.js
function gaqPageView($scope, $location, $window) {
console.log('triggering google analytics');
$scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function(event) {
console.log('event triggered, tracking: ' + $location.path());
$window._gaq.push([ '_trackPageview', $location.path() ]);
});
}
I do see the console log statements, there's no error in the console either.
When I print out the content of _gaq, I do get an array that grows as I navigate around the page (which mean my _gaq.push call is working just fine).
However, in my the network call (in chrome dev tool), I don't see any _utm.gif call to Google Analytics. (Basics of Debugging Google Analytics Code: GA Chrome Debugger and other tools).
What am I missing here? seems like the google analytics is not firing off the event and reporting it?
Edit: I am pretty sure I am silly here, the _gaq variable itself is just a normal javascript array, so of course _gaq.push work just fine. But what am I missing to get Google Analytics to kick in and start sending the content of that _gaq?

Answer 1

Are you currently running your server on localhost, or an intranet name without a "." -- the tracking GIF request doesn't get made for localhost servers by default.
See Google Analytics GIF request not sent.
Another idea: Usually _gaq is defined as an array only if it's not already defined. If ga.js has already executed, you might be overwriting the _gaq object. It doesn't seem likely from your code organization, but...
Try replacing
var _gaq = [['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']];
with
var _gaq = _gaq || [];
_gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X'], ['_trackPageview']);