Missing DOM Ready and Window Loaded events in GTM?

This will be a very quick guide, and it’s based on one of the recent posts in the GTM community on Facebook. One of the members faced a situation where DOM ready (a.k.a. gtm.dom) and Window Loaded (a.k.a. gtm.load) were missing in the Data Layer although the Container Loaded event (gtm.js) worked just fine. Simo Ahava’s eagle eyes spotted […]
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How to remove gtm_debug=x from Google Analytics reports

This will be a quick guide. When Google Tag Manager introduced a new Preview Mode in October 2020, some Google Analytics users started complaining that their GA reports are now littered with ?gtm_debug=x. In today’s blog post, I’ll show you how to remove gtm_debug=x parameter from Google Analytics reports. But keep in mind: this applies only […]
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Cross-domain Tracking in Unbounce Landing Pages

Recently, I had a task to work on an Unbounce landing page, and to make things a little more complicated, visitors were redirected to another domain’s Thank You page after successful form submission. If you want to properly track such form submissions with Google Analytics, you need to implement Cross-domain tracking. However, not everything was straightforward […]
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Google Analytics Goals Not Working? Here’s How to Fix That

Updated: April 22nd, 2020 In today’s blog post, I will not rant about how important goals are in Google Analytics and that every GA setup MUST use them. If you landed on this blog post, chances are that you are already trying to implement them. Kudos for that! In Universal Analytics, sometimes goals are not […]
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How To Unlock (not provided) Keywords in Google Analytics

A long time ago, when SEO was much easier, webmasters, bloggers and other creatures of the Internet were much happier because they knew much more about their visitors’ search behavior. All they needed to do is go to Google Analytics reports and see which organic keywords were driving most of the traffic. But the winter […]
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Track DISQUS Comments with Google Analytics and GTM

Updated: May 12th, 2017. DISQUS is an easy solution to install comments in any website. Just by adding a snippet of code you enable your readers to post comments. In this blog post I’ll show you how to track DISQUS comments with Google Analytics (via Google Tag Manager). Note: this blog post teaches how to track events with Universal Analytics. If […]
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