contemplating analytics solutions with my team, struggeled to remember the name of this API at first, but finally found it https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/sendBeacon …
Navigator Beacons seem to have massive but poorly adopted!
@paulirish89 @addyosmani @slightlylate any thoughts / insights?
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oh damn, wrong Paul! sorry! typed too fast
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I think some folks were shying away from it because of a lack of Safari support (tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme...): https://caniuse.com/#feat=beacon
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The good news is that, as of a few months ago, it's now everywhere.
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know of any analytics vendors adopting yet? we're planning to use for internal tracking and potentially stop using old vendor methods (pixels!)
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At 30% usage across pageloads, I suspect *some* analytics package is defaulting to it: https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/popularity#SendBeacon …
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