Add your first site

Add a website to Insights Orbit, put the script on it and see the first visit arrive.

Tutorial3 min read

This takes about five minutes. You need to be an Admin in Insights Orbit, and someone who can change your website's code or its layout.

1Add the site

A website in CMS Orbit

When your organisation also has CMS Orbit, Sites and Add a site list its websites under Websites in CMS Orbit, with each one's logo and live address, until a site follows them. Select Follow this website: the site gets the website's name and the addresses of its live environment in CMS Orbit, and is connected to its space there, so editors see each page's numbers in CMS Orbit. You need the Admin role in Insights Orbit and the right to change the space's settings in CMS Orbit. When your plan has no room for another site, the plan's limit shows instead of the button.

A website CMS Orbit has no address for yet can't be followed in one step: add its address in CMS Orbit, or add the site by hand.

Any other website

Open Sites and select Add a site, or choose New site in the menu at the top of the sidebar.
Give it a name, such as Northwilds.
Under Addresses, list where the website lives, one per line, such as northwilds.com. www.northwilds.com and northwilds.com count as one. Use *.northwilds.com for every subdomain, and add localhost to try it on your own computer.
Check the Time zone: days in the reports start at midnight there. It starts as your organisation's time zone from Orbit.
Select Add site.

Visits are only counted from the addresses you list, so nobody can send numbers to your site from somewhere else.

2Put the script on your website

A website followed from CMS Orbit and built with the CMS Orbit SDK only needs <CmsInsights /> once in its layout: Install shows it with the site's key. CMS Orbit also sends the key with every page, so <CmsInsights page={page} /> works without it. See Connect Insights Orbit with the CMS Orbit SDK. Any other website uses the script.

You land on Install, with one line of script and your site's key in it:

HTML

<script defer data-site="SITE_KEY" src="https://api.bifrostorbit.com/insights/v1/script.js"></script>

Select the copy button and paste the line into the <head> of every page, or once in your website's layout. The key is not a secret: it only lets your addresses send visits.

Before the script goes live, mention Insights Orbit in your privacy notice, and decide with your adviser whether to ask for consent first. Install says the same beside the script. See What to write in your privacy notice.

3See the first visit

Open any page of your website. Waiting for the first visit on the Install screen turns green within a few seconds, without reloading. Then select See the overview.

Nothing arriving? Check that:

the address you opened is one of the site's addresses,
your browser does not have Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control switched on, since those visits are not counted,
an ad blocker is not blocking the script. Serve it from your own domain to avoid that.

Still nothing? See Troubleshooting.

Set up a goal for what matters most on the site, such as the contact form.

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Get started with Insights OrbitWhat Insights Orbit shows, how to get in, and the first things to set up so your team sees how your websites do.The scriptAdd Insights Orbit to a website with one script tag, its options, and serving it from your own domain.Serve Insights Orbit from your own domainPass the script and events through your own server so fewer ad blockers stop them, and use a proxy token so each visitor's address still counts for places and unique visitors.Change a site's settingsRename a site, change its addresses, switch automatic events off, leave out your own visits, let visitors opt out and delete test traffic.Use with CMS OrbitConnect a CMS Orbit space to a site, and see each page's visitors and campaign results where you edit them.TroubleshootingWhat to check when no visits show, numbers look too low or too high, a goal stays at zero, or you can't open or change something.