--- title: How to log user activities using the Beacon Web API? description: The Beacon API is a relatively unknown, lightweight, and efficient way to log web page activities to a server. It is a JavaScript API that helps the developer... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-log-user-activities-using-the-beacon-web-api--csxvjewku twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How to log user activities using the Beacon Web API? | daily.dev og:description: The Beacon API is a relatively unknown, lightweight, and efficient way to log web page activities to a server. It is a JavaScript API that helps the developer... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-log-user-activities-using-the-beacon-web-api--csxvjewku og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/csxvJewKu.png og:image:alt: How to log user activities using the Beacon Web API? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to log user activities using the Beacon Web API? **[Hashnode](https://daily.dev/sources/hashnode)** · [@atapas](https://daily.dev/atapas) · 6 min read · 11 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary The Beacon API is a relatively unknown, lightweight, and efficient way to log web page activities to a server. It is a JavaScript API that helps the developer to send a small amount of data from the browser to the server. The Beacon API has wide browser support. It works on most of the browsers except the older internet explorer versions. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@atapas** · 2 upvotes > The Beacon API can be very useful for developers to send a small amount of data asynchronously, non-blocking way. Best use for analytics, user activity tracking, debugging logging. 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