UPDATE – February 28, 2021
• Chartbeat tracked websites still using the below akamai.net locations to load our tracking scripts as of February 28 will see a drop in traffic data as these locations are deprecated.
• Our team has sent several email notices starting in December 2020 to our primary contacts at every Chartbeat customer website still using the deprecated akamai.net locations for our tracking scripts.
• To restore tracking for your pages, follow the steps below to update the location from which your site loads our tracking scripts (from the deprecated akamai.net locations, to the supported static.chartbeat.com locations).
• Chartbeat tracked websites still using the below akamai.net locations to load our tracking scripts as of February 28 will see a drop in traffic data as these locations are deprecated.
• Our team has sent several email notices starting in December 2020 to our primary contacts at every Chartbeat customer website still using the deprecated akamai.net locations for our tracking scripts.
• To restore tracking for your pages, follow the steps below to update the location from which your site loads our tracking scripts (from the deprecated akamai.net locations, to the supported static.chartbeat.com locations).
As of February 28, 2021, the following akamai.net locations for our web analytics JavaScipt trackers are deprecated and no longer functional:
- https://a248.e.akamai.net/chartbeat.download.akamai.com/102508/js/chartbeat.js
- https://a248.e.akamai.net/chartbeat.download.akamai.com/102508/js/chartbeat_mab.js
- https://a248.e.akamai.net/chartbeat.download.akamai.com/102508/js/chartbeat_pub.js
- https://a248.e.akamai.net/chartbeat.download.akamai.com/102508/js/chartbeat_video.js
As specified in our integration docs, websites still using the akamai.net locations above to load our tracking code should update immediately to load our code from the corresponding location in https://static.chartbeat.com/js/:
- https://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat.js
- https://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat_mab.js
- https://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat_pub.js
- https://static.chartbeat.com/js/chartbeat_video.js
Migrating to the new location will restore traffic measurement in Chartbeat for any sites that see a drop in visitor data after 02/28/2021 due to the deprecation of our Akamai hosted tracking scripts. Additionally, making this update will ensure you are always loading the most current and best-performing version of our tracking code.