If you advertise your site on Facebook, you can use a tool to follow the activity of visitors who accessed your pages through banners on the social network.
The anatomy of the Facebook pixel
The Facebook pixel is a segment of code that must be copied on each of your site’s pages in order to record data on visitors. The pixel has two parts:
- The base code, which follows the activity of visitors to your site and serves as a reference with the aim of measuring certain events.
- The event code, which records specific actions taken by visitors, as defined by you at the outset. In the standard mode, there are nine actions to choose from (for example): “display content,” “search,” “finalise registration” etc.). You can also create custom events, which will record actions other than those covered by the standard ones.
Facebook pixel: follow your customers through to conversion
Integrating these events into your pages allows you to follow the corresponding actions of your visitors: for example, “display content” allows you to follow the times when certain key pages are displayed (a product page, a landing page, etc.), so that you can learn more about the behaviour of internet users on your site. By adding a specific event code on the payment page, you can observe which internet users have converted from a Facebook ad, and thus evaluate the effectiveness of your campaign.
The Facebook pixel also allows you to observe the movements of visitors from one device to another (computer, smartphone, tablet). This allows you to note, for example, that a visitor used the Facebook application on a phone to click on your ad banner and that they then accessed your site through a PC to finalise a purchase.
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