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beam-analytics

Privacy-first, cookie-free web analytics tracking script for Beam by Keylight Digital LLC.

Live Demo

• Try the product: https://beam-privacy.com/demo
• See API docs: https://beam-privacy.com/docs/api

Why This Script

• Tiny payload: beam.js is currently 1592 bytes raw in this repo
• No cookies, no localStorage, no fingerprinting
• GDPR-friendly event and pageview tracking
• Works with static sites, SPAs, and server frameworks

Script Size Comparison

Measured as uncompressed response size (bytes) on 2026-04-03.

Tool	Script Size
Beam (beam.js)	1,592 B
Plausible (/js/script.js)	3,005 B
Fathom (/script.js)	6,905 B
Umami Cloud (/script.js)	4,584 B

Installation

Option 1: Script Tag (recommended)

<script defer src="https://beam-privacy.com/js/beam.js" data-site-id="YOUR_SITE_ID"></script>

Option 2: npm

npm install beam-analytics

<!-- Serve beam.js from node_modules or your copied public asset path -->
<script defer src="/vendor/beam.js" data-site-id="YOUR_SITE_ID"></script>

The npm package provides the script file (beam.js) and type declarations (index.d.ts).

Technical Article

Building privacy-first web analytics on Cloudflare Workers and D1

An in-depth look at how Beam works under the hood: the Cloudflare Workers + D1 architecture, the cookie-free daily hashing approach for unique visitor counting, and the sub-2KB tracking script design. Also available on Beam's blog and Dev.to (paste from devto-article.md).

Install Examples

GitHub-indexable install examples:

• Next.js example
• Astro example
• Shopify example
• WordPress example
• Webflow example
• All examples

Canonical Beam guides:

• https://beam-privacy.com/for/nextjs
• https://beam-privacy.com/for/astro
• https://beam-privacy.com/for/shopify
• https://beam-privacy.com/for/wordpress
• https://beam-privacy.com/wordpress-plugin
• https://beam-privacy.com/for/webflow

Quick Start

1. Create a site in the Beam dashboard and copy your site_id.
2. Add the script tag to your site.
3. Open your site once to generate a pageview.
4. Check analytics in your dashboard.

Custom Event Tracking

window.beam.track('purchase', { product: 'Pro Plan', value: 5 })
window.beam.track('newsletter_signup')

TypeScript Support

This package ships with index.d.ts.

window.beam.track('upgrade', { from: 'free', to: 'pro' })

Documentation

• Product and signup: https://beam-privacy.com
• Live demo: https://beam-privacy.com/demo
• API docs: https://beam-privacy.com/docs/api
• Source repo: https://github.com/scobb/beam.js

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Before opening a PR:

• Read CONTRIBUTING.md
• Use the bug template: New bug report
• Keep changes focused on the public script package and docs

License

MIT