Our Insights code is what makes Beacon unique. It’s what we use to close the gap between your digital marketing activities and the resulting visitor actions on your website, allowing you to intelligently measure traffic and attribute website events and conversion to specific marketing activities.
When you drive people to your website via a Beacon Link, something pretty nifty happens – we analyse and report all visitor behaviour on your website, giving you the knowledge to attribute website actions to individual digital marketing assets.
Once you have installed the code learn how to verify it is loading correctly here.
Add Beacon Insights in seconds with one of our official plugins
Download our official WordPress plugin
If your website runs on a WordPress installation that you have hosted yourself, you can download our handy plugin here.
If your site is hosted on WordPress.com, you will need the business plan in order to add the Beacon plugin. If you have this plan, navigate to your WordPress plugins section by clicking Plugins on the left navigation bar. From here you should see an Upload Plugin button.
Download our official Drupal plugin
Read how to install a new plugin in Drupal 7 here. If your website runs on a custom Drupal theme, you can get instructions for adding custom Javascript script here.
Download our official Joomla plugin
If your website runs on Joomla, you can download our plugin here, or manually add the code above by inserting it into the site footer. You can get instructions for adding custom Javascript here.
Go to Google Tag Manager and log in to your account or create a new one. Once you’re in, select New Tag.
On the next page, label the new tag Beacon, and select Custom HTML Tag.
Paste in the Beacon Insights code from lower down this page and for Triggering select All Pages.
Name your Tag
Click Submit then Click Publish.
The code should be placed on every page you wish to track. We recommend adding the code to your website footer, just before the closing /body tag.
If you have access to your website code, you can add it manually. Simply paste the following script into each page you wish to track, or ideally your footer file as described above.
<script type="text/javascript">
window.bwai = {"formIntegration":true};(function(a, d, w){var h= d.getElementsByTagName(a[0])[0]; var s= d.createElement(a[1]);s.type= a[2]; s.src= a[3]; h.appendChild(s);s.setAttribute("integrity", a[4]);s.setAttribute("crossorigin", "anonymous");})(['head', 'script', 'text/javascript', '//script.thisisbeacon.com/BLoader/1.1/index.js', 'sha512-13GUu5vadQ2mQwPDwj2jREx1SnYNp0dg5UoI3RN+8Vo+AGFMnmmibbqC4XKnkxHpyK45GtYA2tPzuQJQQHvGgg=='], document, window);
</script>
Form tracking: GDPR Compliance
If you would like us not to capture form data, which may reduce our ability to monitor goals related to form fills, change window.bwai = {"formIntegration":true}; to be window.bwai = {"formIntegration":false}; in the script.
If your website runs on Squarespace, you can manually add the code above by inserting it into the site footer. This is described in a video by the Squarespace team you can find here. Or follow these instructions.
Step 1 – Open Code Injection
In the Home Menu, click Settings, click Advanced, and then click Code Injection.
Step 2 – Add the Beacon code
Add the Beacon code, from above, into the appropriate Code Injection fields for the footer.
Code added here is injected before the closing </body> tag on every page in your site.
If you have built your website in Shopify, please follow the instructions here.
If your website runs on a custom Magento theme, you can get instructions for adding custom Javascript here.
If you have built your website in Wix, please follow the instructions here.
You will need to add the code to all pages and ‘load code’ on each new page. Also, place the code in the ‘head’ when prompted.
If your website runs on another online website building tool such as; Weebly, 1 & 1, etc. you will need to locate the area for adding scripts (just as you do when installing Google Analytics) and place your Beacon Insights code there.
Want to check you have installed the code correctly? Learn how here.
If you need further assistance in installing your Beacon Insights code, or for us to verify that your code is correctly set up, please get in touch with us and we’ll be happy to help.