Troubleshooting library

Fix Tracking Issues

Guides for diagnosing the recurring tracking bugs that keep media buyers awake.

Every broken launch hides the same patterns: click IDs vanish, UTMs go dark inside analytics, postbacks never fire, or redirect stacks grow unwieldy. This section collects the most common failures so you can work from a checklist instead of improvising each time.

Use the guides when a teammate flags missing conversions or when you want to proactively document a clean QA flow before scaling spend. Each page covers context, root causes, a reproducible troubleshooting path, and links to the in-house tools that shorten the cycle.

Guides

15 recurring tracking problems

Start with the scenario that matches your current fire drill, then work through the steps and tools to document a durable fix.

15 guides

Click ID troubleshooting

FBCLID Lost After Redirect

Redirect stacks strip Meta's click ID before forms save it, so Events Manager never sees the real visitor.

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Click ID troubleshooting

GCLID Not Passed to Landing Page

Auto-tagged Google Ads clicks hit the landing page without gclid, so bidding models operate blind.

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Click ID troubleshooting

Click ID Not Stored in CRM

Landing pages capture identifiers, but middleware or the CRM drops them before analysts ever see the data.

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Click ID troubleshooting

TTCLID Not Tracked

TikTok click IDs fall out across translation layers or smartlinks, leaving Events API payloads without match keys.

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Click ID troubleshooting

MSCLKID Not Recorded

Microsoft click IDs vanish after regional redirects or template reuse, so offline imports fail.

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UTM governance

UTM Parameters Lost After Redirect

Redirect chains drop UTMs before analytics fires, so every downstream report goes blank.

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UTM governance

UTM Not Visible in Analytics

The landing page receives UTMs, but analytics reports only show 'not set' rows and empty segments.

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UTM governance

UTM Stripped by Redirect

A new hop strips UTMs mid-flight, so paid traffic loses attribution even though pages still load.

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Postback troubleshooting

Postback Not Working

Networks show zero conversions because callbacks never trigger or fail validation.

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Postback troubleshooting

Postback Not Received

Trackers show callbacks firing, yet partners insist nothing arrived because firewalls or filters intercepted them.

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Postback troubleshooting

Postback Macro Not Replaced

Callbacks arrive but contain literal {clickid} or {payout} strings because the template never swapped values.

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Redirect diagnostics

Redirect Chain Too Long

Users bounce before the landing page loads because the redirect path now includes every experiment ever shipped.

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Redirect diagnostics

Redirect Loop Detected

Two hops keep sending traffic to one another, so the browser never reaches a stable destination.

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Redirect diagnostics

Meta Refresh Redirect

A meta refresh tag forces visitors to wait before the real page loads, often stripping parameters in the process.

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Redirect diagnostics

HTTP to HTTPS Redirect Problem

Protocol rewrites trigger duplicate redirects, drop parameters, or cause browsers to warn visitors.

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