Google Analytics Debugger

Google Analytics Debugger

A browser extension for debugging Google Analytics tracking code

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.
Stats
Users: 40,000+
Rating: 4.43 (35)
Version: 2.1.6 (Last updated: 2017-04-11)
Creation date: 2017-04-11
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Size: 27.75K
URLs: Website
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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
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Great for GA experts and non-experts
  • Clean and understandable output
  • Comprehensive
Cons
  • Works inconsistently
  • Misses pageview events with gtag.js
  • Lack of clear instruction
Most mentioned
  • Clean and understandable output
  • Great for GA experts and non-experts
  • Must-have tool
Recent reviews
Not working. I see only a blank page.
by Roland Roland, 2024-03-15

Works very inconsistently, so makes you think there are problems when there are not.
by Justin Driskill Justin Driskill, 2020-10-29

This is a nice easy to view debugger, but it does miss pageview events, especially when the anayltics is installed as a gtag.js
by Damian Savvides Damian Savvides, 2020-02-24
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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 fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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