the mysterious case of the failing ga4 test

Is there a debug feature you can open and navigate your site and it'll tell you the events its collecting?

Great question. Apparently you can use tagassistant.google.com to test GA4, which I just did, all events were firing as expected yet the test function is still saying gtag not found. Very interesting

My guess, there is something blocking their test crawl from running. I don't exactly recall what the engineers setup, but it's something like requests from the frontend are denied and must come from backend. I could totally be wrong about that, but I've seen a lot of tools 403 when I enter the URL

I had the same problem and forgot how I got it fixed but I'll check again and let you know @PT

Thanks!

Definitely beyond my scope of knowledge/understanding, I fumble my way through this stuff on the fly. Never did web dev and learned C++ 15 years ago lol