Missing DOM Ready and Window Loaded events in GTM?

Published: January 13th, 2021 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. […]
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The most up-to-date GTM course is here

Many things have changed in the last 6 months: the new GTM preview mode, Google Analytics 4, etc. As a result, thousands of learning resources/tutorials/courses became out-of-date almost instantly. But I’ve got that covered! I have completely re-recorded my Google Tag Manager Masterclass for Beginners 3.0. It contains many examples related to GA4 and other […]
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Track Clicks with Google Analytics 4 and GTM

If you are just starting to get a grip on Google Tag Manager, click tracking is probably one of the most demanded things you want to implement. There are many clickable elements on your website and you want to understand how website visitors are interacting with them. In this blog post, we will take a […]
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A Guide to DebugView in Google Analytics 4

When you implement something in Google Analytics (or any other platform), never trust your gut. Always verify that the data was actually received by the platform and is displayed in reports the way you expect it. In Universal Analytics, this was done by checking real-time reports (to verify events, conversions, page views). But if you […]
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How to Find Time to Learn New Skills?

Updated: December 20th, 2020 In December of 2019, I sent a survey to my email subscribers (because I wanted to know where they currently are in their learning journey (and some other stuff)). Among a bunch of new stuff I learned about you, I noticed that many of you cannot find enough time to learn […]
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Recommended Events in Google Analytics 4

There’s a lot to cover when it comes to event tracking in GA4. But since the platform is now event-based, it’s natural that I have a bunch of guides related just to events. In this quick guide, we’ll take a closer look at one group of events, recommended events.   The list of recommended events […]
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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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Track Logins and Signups with Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics

If your website or ecommerce store has a login feature (for your visitors/customers), you should definitely measure that. Since the tool of choice on my blog is Google Analytics, I’ll show you several options on how to track logins with Google Tag Manager and send it to Google Analytics. Oh, and let’s not forget signups […]
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Google Tag Manager and Multiple Domains: How to Configure?

So, you have probably landed on this article because you are working with multiple domains (e.g. domain1.com and domain2.com) and have some doubts on how to handle Google Tag Manager. Should you use one GTM container on all domains? Or should you use one container per domain? In this guide, I’ll show you how to […]
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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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