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Donovant
Donovant

Reputation: 3161

I cannot use Google Tag Manager, dataLayer push doesn't reflect anything on Analytics event panel

GTM snippet put after the GAnalytics one:

<!-- Google Tag Manager -->
  <script>(function (w, d, s, l, i) {
      w[l] = w[l] || []; w[l].push({
        'gtm.start':
          new Date().getTime(), event: 'gtm.js'
      }); var f = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],
        j = d.createElement(s), dl = l != 'dataLayer' ? '&l=' + l : ''; j.async = true; j.src =
          'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=' + i + dl; f.parentNode.insertBefore(j, f);
    })(window, document, 'script', 'dataLayer', 'GTM-XXXXXX');</script>
  <!-- End Google Tag Manager -->

So I'm trying to run on console (from localhost, I tried also on live) dataLayer.push({'event':'test'});

then when I look ad the Analytics event panel (real time) nothing appears on the graph. Any suggestion or idea why that's happening?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4928

Answers (3)

Max
Max

Reputation: 13334

By default, Google Tag Manager doesn't send any data anywhere. When you do a dataLayer.push call, data is simply added to the dataLayer which sits in the client's browser.

For GTM to send data, you need to configure triggers and tags. If you want to setup GTM as passthrough so it sends whatever data you push to it to Google Analytics, here is an example: https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/create-a-generic-event-tag/

Some general info about GTM:

  • Variables: they allow you to fetch data from the dataLayer
  • Triggers: they are rules that define when certain tags should be fired
  • Tags: they are pieces of code that can do whatever you want (add a banner to your website, send data to Google Analytics etc...).

Upvotes: 6

Donovant
Donovant

Reputation: 3161

I sorted it out firing event straight from gtag (Google Analytics):

gtag('event', <action>, {
  event_category: <category>,
  event_label: <label>,
  value: <value>
});

Upvotes: 1

zborovskaya
zborovskaya

Reputation: 1143

dataLayer.push({'event':'test'});

It sends data to dataLayer, not to GA. You can then create a GA Tag with trigger type "Custom event" using name of your event.

Upvotes: 1

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