Chartbeat

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Client-only vendor. Chartbeat documents no server-side ingestion API. Its data comes from chartbeat.js (or its mobile SDKs), which pings ping.chartbeat.net every 15 seconds: the first ping of a page session registers the page view and the later pings carry engaged time. Signal’s server preset reproduces only that first ping, so it records page views without engaged time, recirculation or concurrents. Use it only where the browser script cannot run.

Prerequisites

Two values from your chartbeat.js snippet: config.domain (the Site ID, where traffic appears in Chartbeat) and config.uid (the numeric Account ID). There is no API key.

Configuration fields

Field	Required	Description
`site_id`	Yes	Chartbeat site ID (`config.domain`), sent as `h`.
`uid`	Yes	Chartbeat account ID (`config.uid`), sent as `g`.
`domain`	Yes	The domain of your pages, sent as `d` (e.g. `www.example.com`).

API endpoint

GET https://ping.chartbeat.net/ping?h={site_id}&g={uid}&d={domain}
      &p=/shop/shoes&i=Shoes&r=https://www.google.com/
      &u={anonymous ID}&t={page-session token}&g0=Shop,Shoes&g1=Jo

The keys are the ones Chartbeat documents in its integration QA guides (h, g, d, p, i, r, t, g0, g1), plus u, the visitor token chartbeat.js sends. t is one token per page view. The visitor’s IP address and user agent travel as X-Forwarded-For and User-Agent headers.

Event mapping

Datafly event	Chartbeat
`page`	Page-view ping (`p` path, `i` title, `r` referrer, `g0` sections, `g1` authors from `properties.sections` / `properties.authors`)
anything else	Not sent

Default consent category: analytics.

Blueprint

Blueprint version 0.4.0, status client-only. One Default preset.

Kissmetrics June (deprecated)