container audit
GTM-WT4NCCX
19 tags, 0 custom scripts, 0 third-party hosts — an ordinary container, near the middle of what we measure (median: 39 tags, 4 custom scripts).
Tags19
Custom scripts0
Third parties0
Delivered391 KB
Versions16
What we observed
A real browser loaded joinsherpa.com a month 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
www.joinsherpa.com — not Google, at /haqt6iy0yx2eNWYwMzQ5NzViMDFiN2YyMDQ1MjE5ZDUy/ag/g/cMeasurement 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 ×2 — read from the measurement id, not the hostname
Consent
a consent banner was present and we accepted it. 2 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. 1 advertising host were contacted before anything was granted.
Third parties contacted
20 hosts — cdn.prod.website-files.com, ajax.googleapis.com, www.google.com, d3e54v103j8qbb.cloudfront.net, www.gstatic.com, cdn.amplitude.com, fonts.googleapis.com, js.hs-scripts.com, and 12 more
dataLayer events seen
gtm.js, gtm.dom, gtm.load, gtm.click
Where the data goes
Confirmed — a browser watched this site send measurement data to www.joinsherpa.com, not to Google. observed on joinsherpa.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.
reviewUniversal Analytics tags still shipped (18)
18 Universal Analytics tags are still in the container.
WhyUniversal Analytics stopped processing data in July 2023. These tags still download and execute on every matching page, and send to an endpoint that discards them.
CheckNothing is being collected from these. Confirm the equivalent GA4 tag exists, then delete them.
Seenseen in 23.2% of 46,522 containers measured
reviewNo consent signal in the container (1)
Nothing in this container sets, reads, or gates on a consent state.
WhyThe container itself neither sets a Consent Mode default, holds any tag back for consent, nor references a known consent platform. Either enforcement lives entirely outside GTM — where it cannot be audited from here — or tags fire regardless of what a visitor chose.
CheckIf a consent platform blocks scripts before GTM loads, this is fine — confirm that is actually the case. If not, tags are firing on a choice nobody recorded.
Seenseen in 52.1% 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 »
No third-party hosts were found in this container's tags.
Detected 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-WT4NCCX |
|---|---|
| Published version | 16 — the identity of this configuration. It changes only when someone publishes. |
| Read at | 2026-08-23 18:21:52 UTC (a month ago) |
| Source | https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-WT4NCCX |
| Body checksum | 655c82690f977b760f2a6948e0972e9dec40ceb9d6ae7ef08c71e0c8e927671aEvidence 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 a month 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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