Field notes on conversion tracking
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Your homepage is tracked. Is your product page?
Nearly half of audited sites warn or fail the deep-page check: the measurement IDs that load on the homepage do not load on a product or article page. It is the most common partial failure we see, and the easiest to miss.
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The GTM debug parameters that should never reach production, and how they get there
gtm_preview and gtm_auth in a production container URL mean real visitors are loading a debug workspace. It is rare, always serious, and usually caused by copying a snippet from the wrong place.
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Why tracking decays after launch, and what breaks it
Nobody sets out to break the purchase event. It happens anyway, a few months after the setup was signed off, because of a theme update, an app install, or a consent banner change. Here are the seven ordinary events that silently take tracking down.
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The pre-launch tracking QA checklist (before you ship the new site)
A site redesign is the number-one cause of broken tracking. This is the checklist to run before launch so you do not discover in three weeks that conversions stopped on day one.
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Why most GTM containers are quietly broken (and the 4-step fix)
The median audited site scores 49 out of 100, and 95% fail Consent Mode v2. Here is what actually breaks in a GTM container, why nobody notices, and the four checks that catch it.
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What a tracking audit actually checks (all 13, explained)
TagEasy's free auditor grades any URL out of 100 across 13 checks. Here is what each one looks for and why it matters — so the score means something to you, not just to us.
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