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Save time on your Google Tag Manager audits

Learn how GTM works and discover best practices for implementation and auditing.

What is Google Tag Manager?

Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a powerful tag management system that revolutionizes how marketers implement analytics and marketing technologies. Instead of relying on developers to modify source code, GTM provides a user-friendly interface to manage your digital marketing tools.

Key Components:

Tags

Code snippets that integrate marketing and analytics tools into your site

Triggers

Conditions that determine when your tags should fire

Variables

Dynamic values that provide data to your tags

How to Audit GTM with tagstack.io

Auditing a GTM container traditionally takes hours of manual work. With tagstack.io, you can analyze any container in seconds and get actionable insights immediately.

Container Health

Get an instant assessment of your GTM setup quality and identify improvement opportunities.

Martech Summary

See all installed vendors and track specific feature implementations.

Quick Export

Export container configurations and rebuild them in your own GTM.

Community Insights

Community rated containers setups, so you can build list of reusable components for your next project setup.

Tagging plan Insights [beta]

See, in one glance, what events (standard and custom) are tracked across vendors.

Container Health Score

Our container health report provides a comprehensive audit score based on industry best practices and common implementation patterns.

Container Health Score Example

Example: Airbnb's container health score analysis

Martech Summary

Get a complete overview of installed marketing technologies, including GA4 enhanced measurements, custom HTML implementations, and third-party integrations.

Martech Summary Example

Example: Comprehensive martech stack analysis

Container Export & Inspection

Browse through container entities as if you were in GTM itself. Export configurations as GTM-compatible JSON files for easy reimplementation.

Container Inspection Interface

Example: Container inspection interface

Community Insights

Our community of analytics professionals rate and tag container setups they find interesting or potentially reusable. This is another signal for you to take into account, to determine the quality of a container. This also lets you decide to export the container and reuse some of its components, to speed up your next implementation.

Container Inspection Interface

Example: Community Insights

Tagging Plan Insights [beta]

Get a list of the standard and custom events implemented in a container and find discrepencies across vendors. As this feature has been rolled out in beta the 15th of November, it only checks Google Analytics 4, Meta, TikTok and Microsoft Advertising vendors for now.

Container Inspection Interface

Example: Tagging Plan Insights for hubspot.com's container.

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