Resources

Guides, tutorials, and best practices for website tracking โ€” from the team behind TrackingCoder.

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Looking for how a specific TC feature works (scanner, wizard, monitoring, goals, branded reports)? The Docs section has feature-by-feature references with FAQs and troubleshooting per feature.

Traffic from organic search, paid ads and referral converging through an attribution compass into a single conversion tagged traffic_source: organic.
Event Tracking

How to Track the Traffic Source of an Event (and Prove Your SEO Works) - 2026 Guide

Tie every conversion to the channel that earned it - organic search, ads, referral or direct. Learn session first-touch attribution and how to see which SEO pages actually drive events.

11 min readยทJune 2026
A phone's call button being tapped, flowing into a GA4 bar chart with a plus-one conversion and a phone_click event chip.
Event Tracking

How to Track Phone Number Clicks in GA4 (Click-to-Call Tracking)

Click-to-call is the highest-intent action on most service sites - and GA4 doesn't track it out of the box. Here's how to track tel: link clicks and count them as Google Ads and Meta conversions.

7 min readยทJune 2026
A cursor clicking a call-to-action button with a ripple, sending a button_click event into a GA4 chart.
Event Tracking

How to Track Button Clicks in GA4 (The Right Way) - 2026 Guide

Stop relying on Enhanced Measurement guesses. Learn how to track exactly which buttons your visitors click, with proper labels and event parameters.

8 min readยทApril 2026
A contact form with a success check mark firing a generate_lead form_submission event into GA4 on successful submit.
Event Tracking

How to Track Form Submissions in GA4 - 2026 Guide for Every Form Plugin

Form submissions are the most-tracked event after pageviews. Here's how to do it properly for Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, HubSpot, native HTML and more.

10 min readยทApril 2026
A product card's Add button filling a shopping bag badged with one item and sending an add_to_cart event to GA4.
Event Tracking

How to Track Add to Cart Events in GA4 - 2026 Ecommerce Guide

Add to cart is the most important pre-purchase signal in ecommerce. Here's how to track it correctly across Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce and custom carts.

9 min readยทApril 2026
An order-confirmed receipt totalling $129 firing a GA4 purchase event with transaction id, value, items and currency.
Event Tracking

How to Track Purchase Events in GA4 - 2026 Ecommerce Conversion Guide

The single most important ecommerce event. Learn how to track purchases correctly so your revenue numbers in GA4, Meta and Google Ads actually match your store backend.

9 min readยทApril 2026
A cursor clicking a link that leaves the site for an external domain, recorded as an outbound click event.
Event Tracking

How to Track Outbound Link Clicks in GA4 - 2026 Guide

GA4's Enhanced Measurement gives you partial outbound click data. Here's how to get the full picture: which links, on which pages, with proper labels.

6 min readยทApril 2026
A Shopify storefront with a Buy it now button filling a shopping bag and sending a purchase event.
Shopify

Shopify Tracking Guide: Set Up GA4, Meta Pixel & Google Ads in 2026

Complete walkthrough for installing Google Tag Manager, GA4, Meta Pixel and Google Ads conversions on a Shopify store - without breaking your theme or relying on apps.

9 min readยทApril 2026
A Wix Editor canvas linked to a Custom Code panel injecting head tracking via Settings, Custom Code.
Wix

Wix Tracking Guide: Install GTM, GA4 and Conversion Pixels in 2026

How to add Google Tag Manager and conversion tracking to a Wix site - including which Wix plans support custom code, and what to do if yours doesn't.

7 min readยทApril 2026
A minimalist Squarespace block layout connected to a Code Injection header and footer panel.
Squarespace

Squarespace Tracking Guide: GA4, GTM and Conversion Pixels in 2026

Complete walkthrough for installing tracking on a Squarespace site - including the limitations and quirks you need to know about.

8 min readยทApril 2026
A Webflow Designer canvas linked to a Custom Code embed in Project Settings, plus form and cart listeners.
Webflow

Webflow Tracking Guide: Install GTM, GA4 and Meta Pixel in 2026

Step-by-step guide to setting up tracking on a Webflow site - covering Project Settings, Custom Code, and the gotchas with the Starter plan.

7 min readยทApril 2026
A BigCommerce storefront feeding a GA4 chart and a purchase event.
BigCommerce

BigCommerce Tracking Guide: GA4, GTM and Conversions in 2026

How to install Google Tag Manager and conversion tracking on a BigCommerce store using the Script Manager, with no theme editing required.

7 min readยทApril 2026
A Google Tag Manager container delivering a site event into GA4, which branches out to Google Ads and Meta Pixel.
Google Tag Manager

GA4 vs Google Tag Manager: What's the Difference and Do You Need Both?

GA4 and Google Tag Manager get confused constantly - but they do completely different jobs. Here's the plain-English difference, when you need each, and how they work together.

7 min readยทJune 2026
A central GA4 events hub connected to event chips: view_item, add_to_cart, form_submission, purchase, scroll and button_click.
Google Analytics

GA4 Custom Event Tracking: The Complete Guide for 2025

Learn how to set up custom events in Google Analytics 4 - from basic button clicks to advanced e-commerce tracking.

8 min readยทApril 2025
A Meta Pixel grid mapping to standard event pills Lead, Purchase and AddToCart that the algorithm understands natively.
Meta Ads

How to Set Up Meta (Facebook) Conversion Tracking in 2025

A practical guide to tracking form submissions, purchases, and leads with the Meta Pixel - and why standard events matter for your ad performance.

7 min readยทApril 2025
An ad click carrying a gclid into a Google Ads conversion action with a conversion ID and label, confirmed with a check and rising chart.
Google Ads

Google Ads Conversion Tracking: Setup Guide for Every CMS

Step-by-step instructions for tracking conversions in Google Ads across WordPress, Shopify, Wix, and more - including the new enhanced conversions.

9 min readยทApril 2025
A WordPress site window listing Contact Form 7, WooCommerce and Elementor plugins, wired into a GTM container with auto-generated listeners.
WordPress

WordPress Tracking Setup: Form Submissions, Clicks & E-commerce

The definitive guide to tracking user actions on WordPress sites - covering Contact Form 7, WPForms, Gravity Forms, WooCommerce, Elementor, and Divi.

10 min readยทApril 2025
A Google Tag Manager container showing Tags, Triggers and Variables rows with a container ID and a Preview play button.
Google Tag Manager

Google Tag Manager for Beginners: Everything You Need to Know

A no-jargon introduction to Google Tag Manager - what it is, why you need it, and how to set it up on any website in under 10 minutes.

6 min readยทApril 2025
A cookie-consent banner with Accept all and Reject buttons feeding four Consent Mode v2 signal toggles โ€” analytics and ad storage granted, ad user data and ad personalization denied.
Privacy & Consent

Google Consent Mode v2 Explained: What Marketers Need to Know

What Consent Mode v2 actually does, which of your tags respect it automatically, and the one configuration mistake that breaks tracking for half your visitors.

9 min readยทMay 2026
A GTM version history list with the last-good version v23 highlighted and a restore arrow setting it as latest.
Troubleshooting

Help! I Clicked Overwrite Instead of Merge in GTM - How Do I Restore My Container?

Accidentally overwrote your GTM container during import? Don't panic. Here's how to restore the previous version using GTM's built-in version history.

5 min readยทMay 2026
A GTM workspace-changes checklist being swept by a broom with an Abandon all changes action.
Troubleshooting

How to Bulk Delete GTM Container Changes Before Publishing

Workspace cluttered with experimental tags you don't want to publish? Here's how to clear out unwanted changes in bulk without losing your live container.

4 min readยทMay 2026

Troubleshooting Guides

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