About this plugin
Basicrum connects WordPress to a hosted or self-hosted Basicrum collector. It uses the bundled open source Boomerang library to measure how real visitors experience your site.
Basicrum is currently in private beta. Contact Basicrum to request beta access and receive the Beacon URL and Brum Site ID required to configure the plugin.
Basicrum supports two monitoring modes:
- Monitor without consent – Start monitoring without waiting for a consent decision. Use this only when you have determined that prior consent is not required for your site.
- Require consent before monitoring (recommended) – Keep monitoring off until an external consent tool reports that the visitor has allowed it. This privacy-first mode is the default for new installations.
Basicrum does not display a consent popup or determine your legal basis. Site owners remain responsible for configuring consent where required and publishing an accurate privacy notice.
Features:
- Real User Monitoring – Measure page loads, resources, interactions, and Core Web Vitals.
- WordPress and WooCommerce Page Types – Tag beacons with the current page type.
- Consent-Controlled Loading – Connect automatically through WP Consent API, Borlabs Cookie, or CookieYes, or use manual callbacks for another tool.
- Privacy Controls – Optionally remove URL query strings and exclude logged-in administrators.
- Loading Controls – Choose the script position and an optional post-load beacon delay.
- Optimization Compatibility – Exclude Basicrum scripts from selected optimization features in popular caching plugins.
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External services
When monitoring runs, the browser sends performance beacons to the administrator-configured Beacon URL. In the default consent-controlled mode, this starts only after the site’s consent tool reports an allow decision.
Beacons may include page, navigation, referrer, and resource URLs; query strings unless redaction is enabled; timing and page-type data; interaction counts and timestamps; pointer coordinates and element selectors where available; screen, browser, device, network, memory, DOM, and browser-storage size information; the Brum Site ID; and the random RT session identifier. Keystroke values and browser-storage contents are not collected.
The collector also observes the IP address and user agent carried by the HTTP request.
Beacons go only to the configured endpoint. com unless the administrator configures a hosted Basicrum collector URL. Basicrum does not store visitor beacon data in the WordPress database.
The collector may be hosted or self-hosted. Its operator determines retention, access, deletion, hosting, and transfer arrangements, and publishes the terms and privacy notice that apply. Review them before enabling monitoring.
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Third-party software
Basicrum-owned code uses the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. 60 library comes from the official Akamai Boomerang project and retains its BSD license. Basicrum’s build comes from Basicrum’s Boomerang fork at commit ead2783a; the bundle banner identifies parent commit 564759ed70de7801bb64de5e2025fb6ac049ff5f.
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