Google Tag Manager lets you track custom events on your website without having to change your website code.
March 14, 2020

Google Tag Manager lets you track custom events on your website without having to change your website code.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Tag Manager

The problem was that we wanted to track specific button clicks that users made on our website which was not naturally picked up by Google Analytics. We did not want to change the code on the website. We decided to use Google Tags to implement this tracking. Now we can successfully track our conversions as it is reported in Google Analytics.
  • Easy interface. The work environment where you set up tags is intuitive to me as it is arranged logically. Very easy for someone that has a programming background to understand the flow.
  • Useful testing feature. After you have created your tags, you can open your website and start clicking around. The tag manager has a testing screen that comes up and you can see live which tags are getting fired.
  • Step by step tutorial/guide for those new to the environment. I know I had to Google a bit and used someone else's blog to figure out how to set up some of the Facebook tags.
  • It is crucial because we had to implement a way of tracking an important event that is part of our conversion funnel.
When you want to track certain events happening on your website that is not being captured by Google Analytics already, then Tag Manager is the answer. Especially if you do not want to edit your website code. We use Shopify to host our website and did not have the capacity to hire a code developer, so it was a very good solution.

Google Tag Manager Feature Ratings

Tag library
10
Tag variable mapping
10
Ease of writing custom tags
10
Rules-driven tag execution
Not Rated
Tag performance monitoring
10
Page load times
Not Rated
Mobile app tagging
Not Rated
Library of JavaScript extensions
Not Rated
Event tracking
10
Mobile event tracking
Not Rated
Data distribution management
Not Rated
Universal data layer
Not Rated
Automated error checking
Not Rated
Not Rated
Role-based user permissions
Not Rated