ObservePoint TagDebugger ObservePoint TagDebugger

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Version: 1.23.2
Last Update: 2023-02-17

Overview

ObservePoint TagDebugger is a Chrome extension developed by ObservePoint. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of ObservePoint TagDebugger is 1.23.2, updated on 2023-02-17.
30,000+ users have installed this extension. 53 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: www.observepoint.com/tag-debugger

Troubleshoot and audit analytics tags, variables and on-click events. Supports Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Ensighten and more

ObservePoint’s TagDebugger is a free Chrome Extension for troubleshooting analytics and marketing tags on your live website. TagDebugger captures page-load and event-triggered requests for marketing and analytics tags and parses them into a human-readable format, allowing for easy tag debugging.

TagDebugger is the first step towards comprehensive and efficient governance of your analytics and marketing tags. ObservePoint’s full suite of analytics testing and tag governance solutions can help you:

Scan batches of pages or sequences of actions to verify accurate data collection
Monitor your live implementation for errors in analytics tracking and variable formatting
Test analytics in development and staging environments before releasing into the wild
Receive notifications whenever your implementation fails expectations

Schedule a demo to see how ObservePoint can help you automate and scale analytics testing and tag governance on your entire website: https://www.observepoint.com/request-pages/webassurance-demo-request/

MORE ABOUT TAGDEBUGGER
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TagDebugger is designed to help you debug analytics and marketing tags on a page-by-page basis. After installing the TagDebugger extension, you will see a new tab in your Chrome Developer Tools. Simply open this tab, refresh the page, and you will see which marketing and analytics tags are firing on your website.

For each tag, you will see the following information:

Tag Name (e.g. Google Universal Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Ensighten, Floodlight)
Account (e.g. UA-12345678, mywebsite)
Category (e.g. Analytics, Advertising, Social, Tag Management)
Status (standard HTTP response codes)
Request size/Response size
Total Time/Latency

Basic Debugging
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Clicking into each tag allows you to see the server request formatted as an easy-to-read, categorized hierarchy of variables. You can also view the actual request in both its HTML-encoded and decoded formats.

To clear the log, simply click the “Clear tag requests” button at the top of the extension’s interface.

Debugging on-click events and cross-domain tracking
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By default, TagDebugger clears the log of requests upon navigating to a new page. By toggling the Record button in the extension’s interface, users can make the log persist when navigating from page to page. This will assist in troubleshooting on-click events and cross-domain tracking.

Downloading data
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Users can download a tab-delimited copy of the request log by clicking on the “Export data” button at the top of the interface. This data will appear in your Downloads folder as observepoint.data, and may be limited by the size of the data in the panel

GET STARTED
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TagDebugger is an excellent alternative for anyone who may currently use one or more of the following solutions: WASP, Charles, Fiddler, OmniBug, Adobe Debugger, or Tag Inspector.

To use this extension, follow these five easy steps:

1. Ensure the extension is enabled by selecting More Tools from the Google Chromes’ ellipses menu, then selecting Extensions, and verifying the ObservePoint TagDebugger is enabled.

2. Open the Chrome Developer Tools. (On Windows and Linux, press Control-Shift-i. On Mac, press Command-Option-i.)

3. Select the ObservePoint panel.

4. Refresh the page you are on.

5. Click on a tag to start debugging.

By installing this extension, you agree to the ObservePoint Terms of Service at http://www.observepoint.com/privacy-policy

For more information on the TagDebugger tool, visit: https://help.observepoint.com/article/236-observepoint-tag-debugger-chrome-extension

Rating

53 ratings

Total Installs

30,000+

Information

Last Update

2023-02-17

Current Version

1.23.2

Size

1.16MiB

Author

ObservePoint

Website

www.observepoint.com/tag-debugger

Category

Developer Tools

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avatar Virginia Coates
2021-06-22

Really useful!!

avatar Jeff Tucker
2021-06-21

Super simple tool! Easily step through a web session and record all the web network calls and their payloads parsed. The plugin lets you view all the variables captured in web analytics or customized data layers.

The export option doesn't allow you to see the parsed payloads which is a bummer, but it does allows you to see what calls fired, the page they fired on and even the load time it took for each request. Simplifies the manual web analytics QA process by a ton!

avatar Dylan Sellers
2021-06-21

ObservePoint's Tag Debugger is simple, yet elegant. The tag database is robust and makes it way simpler for spot checking on websites. There are many times where I am proven wrong by the debugger and I catch things that I wouldn't have otherwise. Strong recommendation!

avatar Marcus Tucker
2019-04-08

It still seems to work but the export option doesn't include the "latency" metric, which is a shame as it's quite important. The export also doesn't include the URL of each script, which is a surprising and disappointing omission indeed.

avatar A Google User
2018-09-24

Downgraded review. Looks like it doesn't support newer versions of Chrome.