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Troubleshooting guide
Lighthouse says pass and the search report says fail? Lab runs and real-visitor data answer different questions
A lab test is one controlled load; real-visitor data is a 28-day average across devices. Know which one to use for debugging, which for the verdict and how to set a fair pass.
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Page content jumps while it loads? Reserve the space before the image, font or embed arrives
Layout shift happens when something loads late and pushes content. Give images, embeds and fonts their space early and animate with transforms.
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Supabase returns an empty list with no error? Find the missing policy before you switch protection off
With row-level security on, a table without a matching policy returns nothing. Check the signed-in role, the operation and the column, in that order, on a copy.
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Next.js "hydration failed" or text does not match the server HTML? The documented causes and the safe order of fixes
Hydration errors mean the first browser render differs from the server HTML. Find the specific cause, from invalid nesting to dates, before reaching for suppressHydrationWarning.
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A white screen or a spinner that never stops? What React error boundaries catch, and the cases they do not
An error boundary covers errors thrown while rendering. Request failures, empty results and errors in event handlers need their own handling, or users see a blank page.
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Page scrolls sideways or content is cut off on a phone? Find the one element that is too wide
A sideways scroll bar means one element is wider than the screen. Common causes: a flex item that will not shrink, a missing viewport tag, a full-height section and long unbroken text.
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Old pages return 404 after a relaunch? Build a one-to-one redirect map and test every hop
A redirect map pairs each old address with one right destination. Use permanent server-side redirects, avoid chains and unrelated destinations, and test the whole list.
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Search reports show duplicates, blocked or redirected pages? Make canonical tags, sitemap and robots rules agree
Canonical tags, the sitemap and robots.txt each tell search engines something different. When they contradict each other, pages are skipped or grouped wrongly.
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Webhook signature check fails on genuine events? Verify the exact bytes the provider signed
A signature is a hash of exact bytes. Parsing the JSON and re-serialising it, a proxy that rewrites the body or the wrong secret each change the hash. Find which, safely.
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The same webhook arrives twice and runs twice? Acknowledge fast and make a repeat do nothing
Providers redeliver events that time out or fail. An endpoint that does the work before answering, with no memory of what it has seen, will run the action twice.
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Junk keeps arriving through your web form: why browser checks do not stop it and what does
Scripts post straight to the address behind the form and skip the page. Validate on the server, then add a few low-friction controls and test them against real-looking junk.
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Your form tells real customers their name or email is invalid: loosen the rule, not the standard
Over-strict checks turn away real people. Check names and email addresses against how they really work, and keep a genuine test set that must always pass.
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A GA4 key event shows zero: is it not sent, mis-named or not marked?
Separate the three faults that make a GA4 key event count stay at zero, with a DebugView check for each and a note on what reports can and cannot repair.
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GA4 shows more purchases than orders: find the second sender before you blame GA4
How GA4 treats a repeated transaction ID, what different, blank or fixed IDs do to the count, and a one-order test that shows where the extra purchase events come from.
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Items from the last page show up on the next ecommerce event: clear the object before each push
Why Google's Tag Manager ecommerce examples clear the ecommerce object first, how data layer values replace and queue, and a test that catches stale items.
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Before you delete anything from a Tag Manager container: inventory, preview, then version
A safe order for cleaning up an inherited Tag Manager container: record what each tag sends, watch what fires, change in a workspace and keep a version to return to.
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Campaigns split across spellings and (not set) rows: write one UTM naming rule
What GA4 requires from campaign links, why capital letters split one campaign into two, and how to write and test a naming rule your team can follow.
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Why GA4 files traffic under Unassigned, and when a custom channel group helps
How the default channel group decides, which rules need both a source and a medium, why Unassigned is the fallback, and what custom channel groups can and cannot regroup.
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Consent mode order: set the default before any tag, then update when the visitor chooses
A technical guide to the order in which consent defaults, Google tags and a banner must run, how to check it in Tag Assistant, and what it does not decide for you. Not legal advice.
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Google Ads conversion shows Unverified or Inactive: tag, linker, auto-tagging or a lost click ID
What the conversion statuses mean, how the click ID travels from ad to conversion page, where a redirect or missing linker breaks it, and how to test one conversion.
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Meta Purchase event with no value, or counted twice: parameters, deduplication and how to test
What a Meta Purchase event needs, when deduplication applies and when it does not, and how to check one test event with Pixel Helper and Test Events.
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Your checkout shows up as a referral: how GA4 carries one visitor across two domains
Why a hand-off to a booking or checkout domain splits a visit in two, how the _gl parameter and the domain list fix it, and the four reasons it goes missing.
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Counting form submissions: the Tag Manager trigger, a custom event, or enhanced measurement?
When each way of detecting a successful form submission works, what Check Validation and Wait for Tags change, and a three-case test per form.
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Server-side tagging for GA4: what the server container does, what a custom domain adds, what it does not fix
How a server container receives and forwards events, why the first-party subdomain matters, how to preview it, and the cost and consent questions to settle first.
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