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What server-side tagging actually does, written by the people running it. Specific, measured, and no longer than it needs to be.
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Every GA4 event your server container sees, and where each one comes from
Thirteen standard events arrive without a single tag of yours. Seven more need your site to send them. Here is the full list, grouped by source, and what to check when one is missing.
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Server-side tagging for a Shopify or WooCommerce store: what fires, what does not, and what to install
Every guide to e-commerce tracking skips the same sentence: the tags only fire if the store pushes the events. What a stock store pushes, what to add, and what SignalHost builds for you.
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A cookie banner in front of server-side tagging: what changes, and what does not
Moving tags to your own domain does not change what you may collect. It changes where the request goes. How Consent Mode, a consent manager and a server container fit together — and the two mistakes that send data straight to Google.
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Pointing your own domain at a tagging server: the CNAME, the certificate, and Cloudflare error 1014
metrics.yoursite.com is the whole point. Exactly what the DNS record has to say, why it must point at a DNS-only name, and what goes wrong when it does not.
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