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Investigate switching to Google Tag Manager #2919

Open jcscottiii opened 2 years ago

jcscottiii commented 2 years ago

Switching to Google Tag Manager has some pros and cons when using Google Analytics

Pros:

Tag Manager can determine where to send the event measurements in the backend. Therefore, we don't need to do if host == prod; use Prod GA ID; else use Staging ID
Has a console that allows you to test the changes and debug them

Cons:

The injection of events is different. You have to push them through this global window.dataLayer instead of the gtag object

No priority on this. But something to think about.

past commented 2 years ago

We should check if there is a difference in whether other browsers block the analytics script between the two options. I remember Firefox blocking GTM in some configurations (maybe by default now), perhaps Safari too?