Introducing Trackingplan’s Chrome Extension: Real-Time Debugging for Your Analytics

We are excited to announce a significant addition to our toolkit—the Trackingplan Chrome Extension. This powerful new feature equips you with real-time debugging capabilities, ensuring your analytics implementations are running smoothly and effectively just by navigating through your sites. As simple as that.

Why Real-Time Debugging Matters

Misconfigurations, schema conflicts, and implementation issues can lead to skewed data insights, impacting decision-making and potentially harming your business objectives. Trackingplan Chrome Extension enables you to troubleshoot issues in real-time, providing instant feedback and alerts to keep your analytics setup on track.

Key Features of the Trackingplan Chrome Extension

Seamless Implementation Checks

One of the primary benefits of the Trackingplan Chrome Extension is its ability to monitor your analytics in real-time directly on your websites. As you navigate through your site, the extension checks dynamically to ensure your analytics implementations are functioning correctly, alerting you of any potential errors. It also keeps track of the pages you've visited, making it easy to locate and reproduce warnings. This provides you with key insights, helping you quickly identify the root cause of any issues, and allowing for efficient debugging and smoother analytics management.

Instant Feedback & Proactive Alerts

Say goodbye to tedious error detection processes. As you interact with your site, Trackingplan Chrome Extension will alert you of any tracking issues, ensuring you can address them promptly before they affect your analytics. That way, instead of waiting for analytics reports to highlight missing data or tracking issues, you’ll be notified at run-time, allowing you to check dynamically if your analytics implementations are working as you expect.

Detailed Error Reports

When an error is detected, the Trackingplan Chrome Extension offers a short description of the issue to help you quickly identify its cause. Additionally, it integrates with the Developer Tools Console, allowing you to log and inspect requests. This feature provides deeper insights into the problem, guiding you toward a swift resolution and ensuring your analytics are back on track with minimal effort.

But that’s not all! By clicking on the problematic event names identified by Trackingplan Chrome Extension, you’ll be redirected to the Trackingplan Dashboard to inspect any of your warnings in greater detail. From there, you’ll be able to access Trackingplan's Warning Debug to analyze all the errors compromising your data quality.

You can also explore Trackingplan’s Data Explorer, which allows you to filter by event properties, metadata, DataLayer values, and attribution data, giving you deeper insights into event behavior. For a collaborative approach, access the Warning Management View to better understand warnings and work with your team to resolve them quickly.

Finally, use the Tracks Explorer to get a comprehensive view of all your tracked data in raw, parsed, and data layer formats, allowing you to see in real-time exactly what has been sent to your servers and analytics providers.

Trace Issues Across Your Sites

Working across multiple websites can complicate debugging efforts, especially for agencies managing multiple clients. Our Chrome Extension adds to this challenge by enabling you to trace challenges across various sites seamlessly, allowing agencies to move from web to web smoothly.

This means you can navigate through multiple websites simultaneously, knowing Trackingplan will automatically detect and manage distinct TPids (Trackingplan IDs) for each site.

Enhanced Debugging Capabilities with Trackingplan SDK

When used together with Trackingplan SDK, Trackingplan Chrome Extension can automatically detect and report issues in your analytics, marketing, attribution pixels, and campaign implementations. It supports a wide range of analytics providers, including Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics 4, Adobe Analytics, Tealium, Amplitude, or Segment, ensuring you have full coverage for your tracking needs. Server-side hits are also supported.

Conclusion

Given the breadth of analytical insights required for data-driven decision-making, it's imperative to have reliable and accurate analytics in place. Trackingplan Chrome Extension elevates your analytics operations by enabling real-time debugging and ensuring accurate, reliable data collection. With instant feedback, detailed error reports, and proactive alerts, this tool is essential for anyone serious about optimizing their tracking setup.

If you have any questions or feedback regarding this feature, please do not hesitate to reach out to our support team.

Curious to try it out? Download Trackingplan’s Chrome Extension here.