Optimly Connect
Optimly Connect
Understand the Chrome extension's responsibilities, permissions, and installation state.
Optimly Connect is a Manifest V3 Chrome extension for installing and verifying Optimly's Site Insights beacon. It is the onboarding layer, not a persistent site-management runtime.
What Connect does
- signs in through Optimly OAuth using authorization code flow and PKCE;
- inspects the active public page for bounded platform and existing-beacon evidence;
- matches the hostname to brands the signed-in user can manage;
- binds the selected brand and hostname to a Site Insights site;
- returns the server-generated beacon snippet and platform-specific guidance;
- checks server-authoritative installation state;
- provides Agent Analytics handoffs for supported hosting platforms.
What Connect does not do
- store a client secret, Optimly API key, or CMS credential;
- publish to Webflow, GitHub, WordPress, or another website platform;
- edit page content or inject permanent code into a site;
- mark an installation successful based only on DOM detection;
- run an AI model inside the extension;
- send form values, page text, query strings, or visitor identities to Optimly.
Permissions
Connect requires a signed-in Optimly user who can manage the selected brand. A hostname must match an authorized brand or the extension will not create a site binding.
The extension keeps OAuth tokens in Chrome session storage. Signing out or ending the browser session clears the active session credentials.
Installation state
Connect may detect the beacon element in the current page, but the site becomes Receiving data only after the collector accepts an event for the bound public site key and exact origin. This distinction prevents an incorrect or blocked snippet from appearing healthy.