container audit
GTM-NSPKX7Z
This container can hand execution to 15 third parties — more than 90% of the 46,522 containers we have measured. Each serves code it controls, which can change at any time.
- 14 custom HTML tags carrying 8 KB of JavaScript. This runs on every page the container loads on.
- Measurement runs through a server container on its own domain — the mark of a mature setup, and rarer than the tooling vendors imply.
duplicate-ga4-configis uncommon — under 5% of the containers we have measured have it. That is context rather than a verdict: a server container is rarer still and is a sign of a mature setup. What it means is in the finding itself.
Tags111
Custom scripts14
Third parties15
Delivered586 KB
Versions173
What we observed
A real browser loaded hcltechsw.com 2 months ago and recorded every request it made. This is what happened, as distinct from what the container is configured to do. It is one page load — anything that fires only deeper in the site did not fire here.
Container loaded from
googletagmanager.com — GoogleMeasurement sent to
metrics.hcl-software.com — not GoogleMeasurement is first-party; the container still loads from Google. These are separate decisions, and this is the more common of the two.
Forwarded to
GA4 ×7 — read from the measurement id, not the hostname
Consent
OneTrust answered its own API. 7 measurement hits left the page before it was granted, carrying a client id (whether that is permitted depends on jurisdiction, and this was not a European visit). no new hosts appeared after granting — either the tags are ungated, or they fire regardless and record the decision. Google recorded
gcs=G111 (all granted). 6 advertising hosts were contacted before anything was granted.Third parties contacted
25 hosts — www.hcl-software.com, api.fraud0.com, cdn.cookielaw.org, s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, www.googletagmanager.com, www.youtube.com, geolocation.onetrust.com, dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com, and 17 more
dataLayer events seen
gtm.js, PageReferrer, Landed, gtm.dom, userJourney, fraud0, f0_event_invalid_traffic, OneTrustLoaded, OptanonLoaded, gtm.triggerGroup, factors_user_id_ready, gtm.load, +2 more
Where the data goes
Confirmed — a browser watched this site send measurement data to metrics.hcl-software.com, not to Google. observed on hcltechsw.com More info »
Findings
Ordered by consequence. review has a concrete cost when it bites; info is real but depends on your setup. Seen is how common it is across the containers we have measured — reported separately on purpose, because common and harmless are different claims.
reviewHardcoded http:// URL (1)
1 piece of custom code reference a plain http:// address.
WhyOn an https:// page the browser blocks or upgrades these. Blocked means the tag quietly stops working; upgraded only works if that host also serves https.
CheckCheck whether the hosts below still respond over https, and update the URLs.
Seenseen in 12.8% of 46,522 containers measured
reviewWrites innerHTML (1)
1 piece of custom code assign to innerHTML.
WhyAssigning innerHTML parses the string as HTML. If any of it comes from the URL, the page or a cookie, that is a script-injection route into your own site.
CheckCheck whether the assigned value is a fixed template or built from something a visitor can influence.
Seenseen in 5.7% of 46,522 containers measured
reviewWrites cookies directly (1)
1 piece of custom code set cookies in code.
WhyCookies set this way bypass GTM's consent settings, because the consent checks live in the tag templates rather than in raw JavaScript.
CheckIf any of these cookies are used for analytics or advertising, confirm they are still gated on a consent decision.
Seenseen in 21.2% of 46,522 containers measured
reviewSame GA4 property configured more than once (1)
AW-710009114 is configured by 2 separate tags.
WhyEach config tag initialises the property independently, so a single page view can be counted once per tag. Sessions, users and conversion rates all inherit the error.
CheckIf more than one of these fires on the same page you are double-counting. Compare against a known-good day, or check for a step change in traffic when the second tag was added.
Seenseen in 4.8% of 46,522 containers measured
infoLoads JavaScript from another host (4)
4 pieces of custom code fetch and run JavaScript from another host.
WhyWhatever that host serves executes with full access to the page — it can read the DOM, cookies and form fields. The code is not in this container, so it can change at any time without any change here.
CheckConfirm you recognise every host below and that someone owns the relationship. A host you cannot name is the one to chase.
Seenseen in 54.4% of 46,522 containers measured
infoUses browser storage (4)
4 pieces of custom code read or write localStorage or sessionStorage.
WhyBrowser storage persists across visits and is not covered by cookie consent tooling, so it is easy to overlook when auditing what you keep on a visitor's device.
CheckConfirm nothing personal is being kept there, and that it is covered by your privacy notice.
Seenseen in 23.3% of 46,522 containers measured
infoConsent configuration detected (2)
The container declares one or more consent signals.
WhyConsent handling is present in the container. This describes what the artifact declares; what actually happened on the page is measured separately, above.
CheckConfirm these settings match the consent policy you intend to enforce, and compare them with the before-and-after observation.
Seenseen in 44.6% of 46,522 containers measured
Third parties it can reach
Each host is a party that can execute code or receive data in a visitor's browser. Follow one to see who else loads it. More info »
dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com ×2ads-api.twitter.com ×1api.factors.ai ×1app.factors.ai ×1cdn.getsmartcontent.com ×1hclswaichatbot.eu.bigfixaex.ai ×1px.ads.linkedin.com ×1s.ml-attr.com ×1secure.adnxs.com ×1wec-assets.terminus.services ×1www.clarity.ms ×1www.facebook.com ×1www.hcl-software.com ×1www.influ2.com ×1www.w3.org ×1
What the custom templates can do
Custom templates are third-party code shipped inside the container. Injecting scripts and running page globals is ordinary for them — most tag templates need it to work — so this is an inventory, not a warning. It lists the capability each template declares so you can match it against templates you meant to install.
__cvt_12911340_141 private injects code from snap.licdn.com__cvt_12911340_161 private injects code from www.clarity.ms · runs page-level globals__cvt_12911340_31 private injects code from static.ads-twitter.com · runs page-level globals__cvt_12911340_46 private injects code from connect.facebook.net · runs page-level globalsDetected on
Sites observed loading this container. A container used across many hosts is a shared template; one on a single host is a bespoke build. Follow a site to see every container it loads.
What this audit describes
Containers change. These findings describe one specific artifact, and you can re-fetch it to check this reading.
| Container | GTM-NSPKX7Z |
|---|---|
| Published version | 173 — the identity of this configuration. It changes only when someone publishes. |
| Read at | 2026-08-12 22:39:50 UTC (2 months ago) |
| Source | https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-NSPKX7Z |
| Body checksum | 88a4cf2094bf9e07c06ef0f8e02f54bddbf52726e78acaa074c64e1b849846d5Evidence of the exact bytes we read, not an identity: Google varies the response per request, so re-fetching an unchanged container yields a different checksum. Compare the published version instead. |
Re-audit
This reading is from 2 months ago. A container can be republished at any time, and nothing here updates on its own — a fresh read is the only way to know whether it still says this. Running it again replaces this page in place, so the link keeps working.
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