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name: azion-add-the-edge-pulse-tag-to-your-pages
description: >-
  Copy the Edge Pulse JavaScript tag from Azion Console and add it to the pages you want to measure, so the browsers of real visitors send measurements.
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# Add the Edge Pulse tag to your pages

You copy the [Edge Pulse](/en/documentation/platform/edge-pulse/) JavaScript tag from Azion Console and add it to the pages you want to measure. To read the measurements the tag collects, refer to [Query Edge Pulse measurements with GraphQL](/en/documentation/guides/platform/observability/query-edge-pulse-measurements-with-graphql/).

Edge Pulse is activated for every Azion account, so there is nothing to create in Azion Console. The only object you change is the HTML of your pages.

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## Prerequisites

- Access to Azion Console. Refer to [Access Azion Console](/en/documentation/guides/platform/account-and-billing/how-to-access-azion-console/).
- Access to edit and publish the HTML of the pages you measure, or to the tag management system that publishes scripts on them.

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## Copy the tag your pages need

The tag comes in two forms, and the pages decide which one you take. The **Default Tag** runs after the loading event completes, so it does not interrupt that event. The **Pre-loading Tag** runs before the load event fires. Take it when the pages carry Content Security Policy settings that prevent inline JavaScript. The tag is customized for your account, so copy it from your own Console.

To copy the tag:

1. **Open Edge Pulse**

   Access [Azion Console](https://console.azion.com/) > **Products menu** > **Observe** > **Edge Pulse**.

2. **Select the tag your pages need**

   Select the **Default Tag**, or the **Pre-loading Tag** when the pages prevent inline JavaScript.

3. **Select Copy to Clipboard**

The tag is on your clipboard, ready to paste into a page.

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## Add the tag to the pages you measure

Edge Pulse measures a page only when that page carries the tag. The tag is not inherited from a parent path, from another page of the site, or from a template you did not republish. Both tags go in the same place, before the closing `body` tag.

To add the tag:

1. **Paste the tag into the page**

   In the HTML of the page, or of the template that renders it, paste the tag immediately before the closing `body` tag.

2. **Repeat for every page you measure**

   Paste the same tag page by page, or distribute it across the pages with a tag management system.

3. **Publish the pages**

4. **Check the published page**

   Open a published page, such as `https://www.example.com/`, in a browser and view the page source. The tag you copied sits before the closing `body` tag.

Each published page carries the tag, and the browsers of its visitors run it. Nothing is collected until a visitor loads a tagged page, so the first measurements follow your traffic rather than the moment you published.

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## Next steps

- [Query Edge Pulse measurements with GraphQL](/en/documentation/guides/platform/observability/query-edge-pulse-measurements-with-graphql.md): Read the load time of each tagged page from the pulseEvents dataset.
- [Edge Pulse JavaScript tag](/en/documentation/platform/edge-pulse/javascript-tag.md): The two tags, the browser settings they respect, and the data they collect.
- [How Edge Pulse works](/en/documentation/platform/edge-pulse/how-it-works.md): What a tagged browser does on a visit, and what identifies a visitor.
- [Monitor website and API performance](/en/documentation/use-cases/improve-performance-and-reliability/monitor-website-and-api-performance.md): Edge Pulse measurements read per page and compared with what Azion served for the same domain.