8 ways to optimise Google Tag Manager (GTM) for speed and performance
Google Tag Manager makes it incredibly easy to add marketing tags to your site. From registering ads conversions and transactions to sophisticated tags that segment users based on the weather in their current location, you can go crazy without having to go back to your development team every time. But that doesn't mean you should do it all. While your dev and SEO teams are working hard to reach their pagespeed goals all the marketeers are having a proverbial party in their yard. Here you'll find a few tips to keep your GTM container lean and fast.
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GTM Custom Templates: how to think about building your own
Custom templates are a way to make tag management even more manageable, scalable and secure. GTM’s custom templates can seem very limited, since they’re built on a very restricted, sandboxed version of JavaScript. There's much potential in custom templates, but it helps to think about the fundamentals of tag management when you start building your own custom template. In this post I’ll show you my thinking behind a custom template for building a frequent-flyer style tag to track user behaviour as an attribute.
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