Google Tag Manager Server-Side Tagging with Stape

If you’re looking to get more accurate data from your website, setting up server-side tagging with Google Tag Manager is a great place to start. In this article, we’ll walk you through configuring Google Tag Manager server-side tagging with Stape, focusing on sending Google Analytics tags through the server. We’ll also cover how this setup […]
Julius Fedorovicius
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How to Preserve Ad Click IDs with Server-side Tagging

With the announcement of iOS 26, Apple announced that it will be expanding Link Tracking Protection. For those who don’t know, Link Tracking Protection is by default enabled in Safari’s Private Browsing Mode. It’s responsible for removing various tracking parameters from the page URL (e.g., gclid), which makes it difficult to preserve ad click IDs. […]
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LinkedIn Conversions API with Google Tag Manager. The Guide.

Setting up the LinkedIn Conversions API with server-side Google Tag Manager isn’t as complicated as it might sound, especially if you’ve worked with the Facebook Conversions API before. The two processes are quite similar. If you’re not familiar, don’t worry, in this guide, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know to get the […]
Julius Fedorovicius
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Track Key Events with Google Analytics 4 (GA4 Conversions)

Updated: September 22nd, 2025 In my previous Google Analytics 4 tutorials, I shared how to install GA4 and how to track events with Google Tag Manager. Now, the time has come to learn how to track key events with Google Analytics 4. If you’re sitting there thinking, what in the world is a “key event”? […]
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Setting up cookie consent for Microsoft Clarity (V2)

Updated: September 16th, 2025 When you enable Microsoft Clarity on your website, it automatically sets cookies on a visitor’s browser regardless of consent, but you can configure this behavior to comply with privacy requirements. If your website receives visitors from the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom (UK), or Switzerland (CH), you’re required to […]
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Conversion rate in Google Analytics 4

Updated: September 5th, 2025 Important: Conversion rate has been renamed to Key event rate. You can learn more about it here. ===== When Google Analytics 4 was introduced, it was missing one very important metric many people relied on in GA3, conversion rate (CR). Even though we could see the total number of conversions, that was not […]
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Google Tag Manager Data Layer Explained

Updated: September 3rd, 2025 The Data layer is one of the key concepts in the world of Google Tag Manager. When you fully utilize the Data Layer,  it is the fastest way to level up your data collection across web properties (in fact, a broken data layer = severely crippled GTM). At first, the Google […]
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Cross-domain tracking in Google Analytics 4

Updated: September 2nd, 2025 If you are familiar with cross-domain tracking in UA, you probably know that most of the configuration is done either on the code level (e.g., in gtag.js) or in GTM (GA tags). Because of that, many marketers and web analysts were confused about what to do and where. Luckily, in Google Analytics 4, […]
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