Questions tagged [google-tag-manager]

Google Tag Manager is an analytics tracking tool made by Google. It enables users to implement a variety of tracking options, run custom JavaScript, add custom HTML tags to the page and more, all without having to change code on the site.

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How do I hide the Google Tag Manager preview pane?

When using the "new" UI (version 2) of Google Tag Manager, I cannot disable the preview/debug pane. It's appearing on every page of my web site whenever I'm logged into my Google Apps account. I've deleted every cookie from a *.google.com domain. As…
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Pagespeed Insights reports that Google Analytics is blocking main thread in page load

I'm chasing page speed, partly as proof that getting 90%+ is consistently achievable. My main issue now is Google Analytics. In the below example, it's loaded via Google Tag Manager, so there's just the one GTM snippet at the top of the screen -…
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In Google Tag Manager, what is the difference between Click Target vs Click URL?

In the click triggers in Google Tag Manager what is the difference between Click Target vs Click URL? Source: https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/6106961?hl=en
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Google Tag Manager and AMP

I am setting up AMP for my news site. Does anyone know if there is Google Tag Manager Support? I know you can use Google Analytics. I wonder if I use GA tracking code on all /amp/ pages it will track double.
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Why is my Custom HTML tag not fired in Google Tag Manager

I have a Custom HTML tag in Google Tag Manager that is actually very simple. It consists of the following code (a GTM Macro): {{html generator}} This tag is only fired on the Thank-you page on my website. This firing rule works fine, as I'm using…
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Why is Facebook Pixel firing the gtm.formSubmit event?

I have a Google Tag Manger container that contains a Facebook Pixel injector tag and a regular form submission tag (with standard form submission trigger). However, when the submit button of a form is clicked (resulting in invalidation thus no…
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URL query removal in Google Analytics tracking

We are trying to track all of the page views to certain sites. We ONLY need to know how many folks visit each page. Unfortunately what is happening is Google Analytics (GA) is not aggregating the page views. Rather than aggregating all of the…
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Google Data Studio - How to get percentage of users who performed an event?

I have setup a dashboard where I could easily get the number of users who performed a certain event in a card. I have used the 'users' metric with a filter for the 'event category' and 'event action' and it gives me the number of users who performed…
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Not registering engagement time in GA4

We've set up a new website, based on Wordpress. We use Google Tag Manager (as on the old website) and new for this website, Google Analytics 4. We're getting a lot of data as you'd expect, but we're not getting any data on engagement time. There…
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Google Tag Manager events not registering in GA4 but do in GA

I have several tags/triggers in Google Tag Manager( both script/non script versions - https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js and https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html) that clearly show up in the old version of GA (Universal Analytics) under…
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How to deal with bots repeatedly accessing our "Thank You" page

We have a "Thank You" page that users are redirected to after completing a form submission. Random IP addresses are accessing that page over and over causing our analytics data to be skewed. Here's a screenshot of our page views for the past 7…
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In Google Analytics, track which item and subsequent navigation path is used more

My knowledge of Google Analytics is pretty rusty. I am trying to set up tracking where I can know which Ad or button has been clicked, then as a next step, track which button has been clicked next. (The two clicks should be connected to each…
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Do I still need Google Ad Services' script if using Google Tag Manager?

I have inherited a site that has both GTM tags (one Google Ads Remarketing that fires on every page with a Conversion ID but no label, and the Conversion Linker), and the standard conversion script as below.