Google Analytics Debugger

Google Analytics Debugger

A browser extension for debugging Google Analytics tracking code

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What is Google Analytics Debugger?

Google Analytics Debugger is a Chrome extension designed to support developers in debugging and inspecting tracking beacon data for both Traditional and Universal Analytics. It’s equipped to capture live data, offering insights into tracker properties, client information, document properties, events, custom variables, and more. The extension effortlessly handles multiple trackers, grouping beacons for uncomplicated navigation and interrogation.

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Stats
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Rating: 4.53 (34)
Version: 2.1.6 (Last updated: 2017-04-11)
Creation date: 2017-04-11
Manifest version: 2
Size: 27.75K
URLs: Website
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Summary

Google Analytics Debugger is a devtools extension for exposing tracking beacon data to developers.

Live data capture

Capture tracking beacons for Traditional and Universal Analytics properties while you browse. Beacons are automatically grouped by page context, making it easy to identify how tracked events relate to each other.

Beacon inspector

Review meta data for every tracking beacon sent to the Google Analytics servers with the context sensitive inspector.

Tracker properties Client information Document properties Page views

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User reviews
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Pros
  • Easy to view and understand output
  • Helpful debugging tool
  • Better than official Google GA debugger
  • Good for tracking and testing analytics
Cons
  • Works inconsistently
  • Misses pageview events
  • Extension icon is always greyed out
Most mentioned
  • Cleaner and understandable output
  • Helpful for developers
  • Better than official Google GA debugger
  • Need for instructions or more clarity on usage
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Safety
Risk impact

Google Analytics Debugger is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Google Analytics Debugger has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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