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Tag manager

A central tag manager decouples tracking changes from your release cycle.

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What we check

Looks for a central tag manager (GTM, Zaraz, Tealium, Adobe Launch, Segment).

Why it matters

A central tag manager decouples tracking changes from your release cycle.

Common causes

  • All pixels are hardcoded individually, grown historically across several agencies.
  • A tag manager exists but loads from a first-party subdomain and is not recognisable as one in the HTML, then the finding is a false positive.
  • The CMS plugin manages the tags, without versioning and without permission separation.
  • The container was installed for a test and never published, the snippet points to an empty workspace.

How to fix it

Set up GTM, Zaraz, Tealium, or Segment, centralise and version your tags.

  • Q01
    What does a failing Tag manager finding mean?

    A central tag manager decouples tracking changes from your release cycle. Set up GTM, Zaraz, Tealium, or Segment, centralise and version your tags.

  • Q02
    How do you fix Tag manager?

    Set up GTM, Zaraz, Tealium, or Segment, centralise and version your tags.