What is Web Beacon?

[venkatjaya]

A web beacon is a clear picture file used to keep track of your navigation through a single website or a series of websites.

 

[aarisseo]

Web beacons also go by the name of web bugs and are normally used by websites that use third party traffic monitoring and tracking services. Web beacons might be used in connection with cookies to gain an understanding of how a website's users navigate through and process the content contained in that website.

 

[elinavelly]

A web beacon is a clear picture file used to keep track of your navigation through a single website or a series of websites.

 

[electra]

Web beacons also go by the name of web bugs and are normally used by websites that use third party traffic monitoring and tracking services. Web beacons might be used in connection with cookies to gain an understanding of how a website's users navigate through and process the content contained in that website.See how Beacons work in this slide show

 

[sowmya]

The web beacons can be referred to a file object that is placed on web page in order to monitor the user behaviour. They are often used by the spammers to validate email address.