Spent 8 hours troubleshooting a broken tracking pixel last Tuesday

Turned out the client's IT guy had AdBlock running on the staging site. Did you ever find a quick way to check for browser extensions messing with your setups?

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angela_harris1mo agoMost Upvoted

Yeah I just open DevTools and check the console tab for blocked scripts. That usually catches it.

the_ruby1mo ago

Tried that exact method on a site that kept hiding product images. Found three tracker scripts getting blocked in the console, turned off the ad blocker for just that domain, and boom everything loaded fine. Also started checking the network tab for 404 errors on images or files that might point to broken asset links.

seth_shah1mo ago

Wait... hold on @angela_harris... you check the console tab specifically for blocked scripts and that normally works? I've been clicking around in the network tab for years trying to figure out why some sites won't load right. The console tip just blew my mind a little, seriously. Gonna try that on my next broken site and see if it saves me some headache.