Trackie

Debug and test tag manager and analytics implementations. Trackie 🐞 is a Chrome extension to enhance debugging 👨🏼‍💻 of some frequently-used tag management platforms 🌩:

In addition Trackie intercepts ⚡️ a lot of most-used tag calls (page view, clicks, checkout…) 🕵🏻‍♂‍from:

Tag calls can now be exported in csv 💾 in order to better view data collected offline!

Installation

To use the unpacked source version, enable Developer mode in the Chrome extensions page and Load unpacked extension from the checked-out src folder.

The latest official version is on the Chrome Web Store.

Use

A new panel will appear in Developer Tools titled Trackie, containing a page group and URL for each pageload in the tab, with each push to the dataLayer variable (in the case of GTM’s array-based data layer) appearing in a subgroup.

  1. Current URL / TMS logo (or X if no TMS found); click to collapse/expand this page
  2. TMS container ID; becomes a dropdown menu if multiple containers are present
  3. Data layer items; items with a + are objects containing sub-items and can be expanded one level by clicking + or expanded fully by shift-clicking +
  4. Information on fired tags (GA, Floodlight, SiteCatalyst); click + here to see all parameters in the request
  5. Trackie settings and information
  6. Clear history

All items are in reverse chronological order (newest on top).

Note that vertical alignment between the data layer and any fired tags does not necessarily indicate a tie between the two. If a page contains only a data layer, or only tags, that side of the panel will expand to take up the width of the entire panel.

Settings

General

Tags

All supported tag types are shown by default; these can be individually disabled.

Ignored IDs

To filter out tags hitting specific analytics properties, enter the property IDs here.

Bug report - feature request

Feel free to open new issues following the issue templates.

Misc

Trackie was built with and thanks to the following:

Trackie is under the MIT License. See LICENSE.md.