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Google Analytics Debugger

by Google Analytics

v3.0 Updated Dec 30, 2024 28.41KiB
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★ 4.18
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⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

This extension loads the debug version of the Google Analytics Javascript for all sites you browse using Google Chrome. It prints useful information to the Javascript console. These messages include error messages and warnings which can tell you when your analytics tracking code is set up incorrectly. In addition, it provides a detailed breakdown of each tracking beacon sent to Google Analytics. To use this extension, You need to follow three steps: 1. Turn it on by clicking its icon to the right of the address bar. 2. Open the Chrome Javascript console to see the messages. On Windows and Linux, press Control-Shift-J. On Mac, press Command-Option-J. 3. Refresh the page you are on. By installing this extension, you agree to the Chrome Gallery Terms of Service at https://chrome.google.com/extensions/intl/en/gallery_tos.html You can ask questions about the plugin and report bugs at analytics-extensions@google.com New in this version: - Upgraded to Manifest v3
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Reviews (43 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-06
Danilo De Rosa

Could be better in many ways.

★☆☆☆☆2023-06-14
Matthew Gregory

Trying to filter developer traffic in GA4. Have the data filter setup in GA4 correctly but not sure how to enable debug mode. Supposedly this should do it, but don't think it's working. Didn't have high expectations since this was updated back in 2019.

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-24
TJ Claridge

Sadly I can't use this because we apparently have 5,000 "Debug devices" with similar names. Until they fix this... it is useless and we can't validate any tracking. How did they miss this?

★☆☆☆☆2022-06-24
Radley Sustaire

Nothing happens, nothing in console. Icon says ON. No settings? Not sure what its even supposed to do. All the preview screenshots are super blurry.

★☆☆☆☆2021-02-02
Casey Hani

very terrible it was debugged couldn't code the s word so it was very terrible

★☆☆☆☆2018-05-31
Tala Sabi-aish

doesnt work unfortunately

★☆☆☆☆2018-03-07
Malcolm Li

Not work on chrome 61.0.3163.100

★☆☆☆☆2018-01-14
Michael Erkens

It doesn't work, nothing gets in the console, however GA is working correctly on my site.

★☆☆☆☆2017-08-08
Rajan Raj

Doesn't work

★☆☆☆☆2017-07-17
Richard Barraclough

Doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2015-11-10
T Frost

Didn't work at all!

★☆☆☆☆2015-10-22
Shane Fitzgerald

Did absolutely nothing

★☆☆☆☆2015-08-15
Lee Dickholtz

Pretty frustrating to install and not be able to turn it on. Click on icon? Didn't work (though enabled).

★☆☆☆☆2015-07-16
Jakob Mark

Installing this disables AdBlock+, so get ready for commercials

★☆☆☆☆2015-07-09
Matt Hawkins

No instructions at all. No idea how this is meant to help debug anything. As a Chrome extension the lack of information is really poor. I would have expected better of Google.

★☆☆☆☆2014-12-15
Jarosław Perek

zero!!!

★☆☆☆☆2014-10-28
Veeresh Devireddy

It failing instantly. Installing, but confusing icon and no action, the page flickering and not showing anything.

★☆☆☆☆2014-10-22
Zaa Normandin

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detected 9 files in this extension: PUP.Optionnal.BrowserCoupon.A I suggested that you uninstall that extension!

★☆☆☆☆2014-09-04
Pablo Klestorny

Doesn't work at all.

★☆☆☆☆2014-08-09
Arika Achumi

i think this extension is bugged .. i get lots of ads with this extension enabled .. not adviced..

★☆☆☆☆2013-11-09

Terrible instructions, as always from Google.

★☆☆☆☆2013-03-05
Wai Lai

Not able to download. It show added to chome button. But i check on my extension, can't found that extension.

★☆☆☆☆2013-01-28
Analytics Sammic (Analytics)

Doesn't work for me, no tracking logging at all. Using Chrome 24 on an Ubuntu 12.04 amd64 Box.

★☆☆☆☆2012-01-03
Eliot Stock

Often doesn't work. I see nothing in the JS console on pages that clearly have the call to _trackEvent. Hasn't helped me debug at all.

★☆☆☆☆2011-07-15
Billy Schneider

Very very buggy, usually requires me to refresh the page multiple times in order for it to show any tracking information (it is not because of cookies/cache, as I have tried in a fresh session with the same buggy results). This would be a very useful plugin if it worked as advertised. I hope Google can work out the bugs!

★★☆☆☆2019-07-02
Jamie Evawin

It's a really nice way of browsing GA hits. So much cleaner than the official GA plugin. However, it's not maintained (most recent commit 2 years ago) and it doesn't actually pick up every hit. I've noticed sometimes I'll click something, the plugin won't show it, but I'll see the event in the network inspector and in GA so I know it fired. It's a shame because this plugin is really nicely designed but without knowing it's picking up every hit, it's almost useless.

★★☆☆☆2016-02-29
Barry Mann

Its very old now and is not maintained. You won't be able to see any of the new stuff like enhanced eCommerce.

★★☆☆☆2015-09-04

The instruction are not terribly clear and intepreting the output is not easy. Would be helped by a little more documentation.

★★☆☆☆2014-11-12
Pilch Barnet

Doesn't work at all. No readout. No instructions. No options. Nowhere on the internet explaining how to fix it either.

★★☆☆☆2013-05-23
Jason Karns

Apparently it doesn't work with Google's new analytics.js flavor?

★★★☆☆2023-04-05
John Egan

Seems to work, even though Google hasn't touched it in 3.5 years. And, I was not able to find any documentation on how to properly use this or interpret the results. Google is one of the wealthiest companies on the planet, yet they can't find their way to hire a small team to maintain and document this tool? Typical Google Greed.

★★★☆☆2023-03-11
Eduardo Mota

It used to work perfectly with the previous version but now, with GA4 doesn't work anymore.

★★★☆☆2022-05-27
Robot Yang

not working, dont know why.

★★★☆☆2018-01-10
Furman Roth

Doesn't work half the time

★★★☆☆2017-10-05
真ちゃん

so so

★★★☆☆2015-05-02
Hey its Frankenmint

Works as Intended except I cannot remove my preview analytics window - its just a crappy iframe port of the tags page - seems to fire automatically if I have a tag embedded - WHY CAN'T I TURN IT OFF!!!

★★★☆☆2015-03-29
BCSpikeFM (Zalti)

It doesn't seem to do anything at all.

★★★☆☆2014-04-01
Marc O'Reilly

I normally love this tool, but it hasn't been able to detect any of our new sites using Universal Analytics. Not sure if anyone else is having this problem.

★★★☆☆2013-09-05
Nathan Ziarek

It's not kept up-to-date with the newer analytics tech, like universal analytics. It also sometimes needs to be toggled on-off a few times before you see anything in the console. If it was more reliable, it would be a *great* tool.

★★★☆☆2013-08-27
Bronwyn Vourtis

Doesnt help with with analytics.js

★★★☆☆2013-07-22
Vlad-Marian MARIAN

Handy plugin but it could be better, sometimes it has a tendency to not do it's thing. Also it would be nice if it was updated to show everything sent to Analytics like the content experiment chosen variations.

★★★☆☆2012-09-14
Projector People

Great tool for debugging, but does not work if you use the remarketing code. If you could fix that, it'd be fantastic.

★★★☆☆2012-01-23
Jaidev Soin

This plugin is great when it works, but most times I have to reload the page first to see anything (the first time, ga.js loads, not the debug script). This makes it a bit frustrating, and also makes it impossible to test certain things if reloading violates what you are trying to track.

Permissions (3)

Permissions

declarativeNetRequest Can block or redirect network requests storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 3.0
Updated Dec 30, 2024
Size 28.41KiB
First Seen Mar 21, 2026