Debugging guides
Practical, step-by-step walkthroughs for the tracking problems practitioners actually hit, each one solved inside Chrome DevTools with Event Watcher.
- How to check if GA4 fires before consent is given
Use Event Watcher's consent cross-referencing to see whether Google Analytics 4 sends hits before the visitor accepts the cookie banner, and what those hits contain.
- How to debug Google Consent Mode v2
Inspect the consent state Google tags actually receive: default and update commands, ad_storage / analytics_storage signals, and how they differ from what your CMP believes.
- How to find out which script pushed an event to the dataLayer
Every dataLayer.push has an author: the site, the tag manager, or a third-party script. Event Watcher attributes each push so you can find the source of mystery events.
- How to preview or swap a GTM container without publishing
Test a Google Tag Manager container against any live page: block the production container or swap in another one, straight from DevTools, without publishing.
- How to audit every tracking pixel on a page in one view
See every tracking platform a page loads (named, categorized, and consent-checked) instead of scrolling through raw DevTools network requests.