Website Tracking & Analytics Audit
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Website Tracking & Analytics Audit

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Works, with issueshttps://www.kipcandleco.com/

Your website's tracking infrastructure is mostly in good shape, with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and several marketing pixels like TikTok, Meta, and Pinterest successfully firing on the homepage. However, there are a few areas of concern. The Shopify Trekkie analytics did not fire as expected, which could mean some native Shopify tracking isn't functioning properly. Additionally, there are conflicting GA4 IDs, which might lead to data discrepancies. For Shopify stores, it's important to ensure that Trekkie and the Web Pixels API are working correctly to avoid duplicate data collection. Next, you should audit your product, cart, checkout, and order-confirmation pages to ensure all necessary events are firing correctly. Given the issues found, I recommend connecting your store to PayHelm AI for a more detailed analysis and assistance.

Tracking Health: 87/100 · BSEO Score: 75/100 · BAI SEO Score: 70/100 · C
Overall Tracking Health
87out of 100Grade BGood
Tag manager installed12/20

Tag setup present but not confirmed loading.

GA4 tracking20/20

GA4 is installed and sending data.

Ecommerce funnel coverage20/20

4 of 4 key funnel stages look healthy.

Data quality15/15

No data-quality issues found in tracked events.

Consent Mode10/10

Consent Mode v2 configured.

Performance10/10

Tags load quickly.

No conflicts0/5

Conflicting or deprecated analytics IDs detected.

Advanced Tracking Features
Consent Mode v2Pass

Consent Mode v2 is configured via Cookiebot. The default and update calls and the v2 signals (ad_user_data, ad_personalization) are all present.

default: yesupdate: yes✓ ad_storage✓ ad_user_data✓ ad_personalization✓ analytics_storageCMP: Cookiebot
Tag PerformancePass

Tags loaded quickly — no performance concern.

GA4 first hit 4.80sDOM ready 4.30sPage load 6.50s
Cross-domain TrackingInfo

No cross-domain (linker) tracking was detected. If your checkout or other steps live on a different domain, set up linker tracking so visits aren't split into separate sessions.

Enhanced ConversionsPass

Google Ads Enhanced Conversions appear to be set up — hashed first-party data is being passed to improve conversion accuracy.

user_data parameter
User-ID TrackingInfo

GA4 User-ID tracking was not detected. If you have logged-in users, setting a User-ID lets GA4 join their activity across devices and sessions.

Checkout & Purchase CoverageWarning

We couldn't reach the checkout or order-confirmation page during this audit, so purchase tracking is unverified. Purchase is the single most important event to get right — test it with a real or test order and confirm the 'purchase' event fires once on the thank-you page.

Conflicting GA4 IDsWarning

Multiple GA4 measurement IDs were found (G-ZNFMBTH6QH, G-P4Z21SF2HF, G-ST5B8SVH5B). Sending the same events to more than one GA4 property is sometimes intentional, but is often an accident that doubles event counts or splits data — confirm each ID is meant to be here.

G-ZNFMBTH6QHG-P4Z21SF2HFG-ST5B8SVH5B
SEO Review
75out of 100Grade BGood

SEO basics are mostly in place with a few opportunities to improve.

Title tagPass

Title is 44 characters — within the ideal 30–70 character range.

Kip Candle Co | Luxury High Strength Candles (44 chars)
Meta descriptionWarning

Meta description is 161 characters. Google may truncate descriptions over ~160 chars.

Kip Candle Co. Hand-crafted nature & travel inspired seasonal soy candles. Quality ingredients a… (161 chars)
H1 headingWarning

2 H1 headings found. Most SEO guidance recommends a single H1 per page to signal the primary topic clearly.

2 H1 tags found.
Robots / indexabilityPass

No noindex directive — the page is eligible to be indexed.

No robots meta tag (defaults to index, follow).
Canonical URLPass

Canonical tag points to the page itself — no duplicate-content signals sent to search engines.

https://www.kipcandleco.com/
Open Graph tagsPass

All core Open Graph tags found — links display richly when shared on social media.

og:title ✓ og:description ✓ og:image ✓
Structured data (Schema.org)Info

No structured data found. Adding Schema.org markup can unlock rich snippets and improve your search appearance.

No structured data found.
Mobile viewportPass

Viewport meta tag found — the page is set up for mobile-friendly rendering.

viewport meta tag present
AI Discovery & AI SEO
70out of 100Grade CFair

2 AI discoverability gaps found — closing them improves your odds of being cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

llms.txt filePass

llms.txt is present and well-formed — AI assistants that check this file can quickly find your key pages and docs.

Found at /llms.txt with a title heading and 5 linked resources.
AI crawler access (robots.txt)Pass

robots.txt doesn't block any major AI crawler — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google's AI features can all fetch and cite your content.

All 15 known AI crawlers are allowed.
Structured data for AI answersWarning

No structured data found. AI answer engines lean heavily on Schema.org markup (FAQPage, Product, Organization) to extract clean facts instead of parsing raw HTML.

No JSON-LD structured data found.
Server-rendered contentPass

Meaningful text content is present in the raw HTML response — AI crawlers that don't execute JavaScript can still read and cite this page.

~608 words of text visible in the raw HTML response.
XML sitemapWarning

No sitemap.xml found. Without one, crawlers (including AI crawlers) can only discover pages by following links, which may miss deeper content.

No /sitemap.xml found.
AI crawlers
GPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-Webanthropic-aiPerplexityBotPerplexity-UserGoogle-ExtendedApplebot-ExtendedBytespiderCCBotAmazonbotcohere-aiMeta-ExternalAgent
Opportunities
  • Add JSON-LD structured data (Organization + FAQPage at minimum) so AI assistants can extract accurate facts about your business instead of guessing from page text.
  • Publish a sitemap.xml — it's the fastest way for both search engines and AI crawlers to discover every page worth citing, not just the ones linked from your homepage.
Shopify Store Detectedkip-candle-co.myshopify.com
Trekkie / Native Analytics
Present — no beacon observed
Web Pixels API
Active (Customer Events sandbox)
Shopify Analytics
Present
On Shopify, pixels can fire from three independent sources: GTM tags, hardcoded theme code, and Shopify Customer Events. Duplicate fires inflate conversion counts and corrupt ROAS — see the checks below for details.
No GTM container was detected on this page.
Checks
GTM containerInfo

No GTM-XXXX container; gtag.js present instead.

No GTM container detected. This store relies on Shopify Web Pixels and direct gtag.js — a perfectly valid architecture for Shopify. GTM may improve centralised management but is not required.

GA4 firingPass

G-ZNFMBTH6QH, G-P4Z21SF2HF, G-ST5B8SVH5B — collect hit observed.

Google Analytics 4 is actively sending pageview/event data.

JavaScript errors during loadInfo

5 error(s) logged.

JavaScript errors were logged during page load. These don't necessarily affect tracking — only errors that directly interrupt pixel execution matter. See any vendor-specific errors below for actionable issues.

Shopify platform detectedPass

Shop: kip-candle-co.myshopify.com

This is a Shopify store. Pixels can fire from three sources: GTM tags, hardcoded theme code, and Shopify Customer Events (Web Pixels API sandbox). All three are audited here.

Shopify native analytics (Trekkie)Warning

Trekkie loaded but no monorail beacon observed

Trekkie is present but no network beacon was observed — it may be blocked, gated behind consent, or misconfigured.

Fix this issue
Shopify Web Pixels API (Customer Events)Pass

Web Pixels API / Shopify.analytics detected — pixels run in a sandboxed iframe

Shopify's Web Pixels API is active. Pixels installed via Shopify Admin → Settings → Customer Events run in a sandboxed iframe, independently of GTM — they cannot interfere with each other, but duplicates are still possible if the same vendor is also in GTM or theme code.

Shopify platform detectedInfo

cdn.shopify.com / window.Shopify

This site runs on Shopify. Tracking setup and common pitfalls differ by platform, which is factored into this audit.

Google Consent Mode v2Pass

default=true, update=true, signals=[ad_storage, ad_user_data, ad_personalization, analytics_storage], CMP=Cookiebot

Consent Mode v2 is configured via Cookiebot. The default and update calls and the v2 signals (ad_user_data, ad_personalization) are all present.

Tag load performancePass

GA4 first hit 4804ms, DOMContentLoaded 4304ms

Tags loaded quickly — no performance concern.

Cross-domain trackingInfo

No linker configuration observed

No cross-domain (linker) tracking was detected. If your checkout or other steps live on a different domain, set up linker tracking so visits aren't split into separate sessions.

Enhanced Conversions (Google Ads)Pass

user_data parameter

Google Ads Enhanced Conversions appear to be set up — hashed first-party data is being passed to improve conversion accuracy.

User-ID tracking (GA4)Info

Not detected

GA4 User-ID tracking was not detected. If you have logged-in users, setting a User-ID lets GA4 join their activity across devices and sessions.

Conflicting GA4 IDsWarning

G-ZNFMBTH6QH, G-P4Z21SF2HF, G-ST5B8SVH5B

Multiple GA4 measurement IDs were found (G-ZNFMBTH6QH, G-P4Z21SF2HF, G-ST5B8SVH5B). Sending the same events to more than one GA4 property is sometimes intentional, but is often an accident that doubles event counts or splits data — confirm each ID is meant to be here.

Fix this issue
Checkout / purchase coverageWarning

purchase observed=false, checkout page audited=false

We couldn't reach the checkout or order-confirmation page during this audit, so purchase tracking is unverified. Purchase is the single most important event to get right — test it with a real or test order and confirm the 'purchase' event fires once on the thank-you page.

Fix this issue
Marketing Funnel Coverage
0 observed· 11 not auditable on this page

Funnel events are page-specific: purchase only fires on order confirmation, add_to_cart requires a user click. Events shown as are not observable on this page type — audit each page separately for full coverage.

Discovery

Product List / Collection Viewhigh
view_item_listMeta: ViewContentfound in JS ✓

Not observed firing, but 'view_item_list' was found configured in the site's JavaScript. It may fire only when users take specific actions or visit the relevant page type. Not observed on this page. Set up 'view_item_list' on your collection/category/search pages for funnel visibility. On Shopify, events may fire via Customer Events (Shopify Web Pixels sandbox) and may not be visible in the dataLayer — verify in Shopify Admin → Settings → Customer Events.

Product Click from Listmedium
select_item

Not observed during this load — 'select_item' requires user interaction on collection/category pages. Verify by manually testing the action on that page. On Shopify, events may fire via Customer Events (Shopify Web Pixels sandbox) and may not be visible in the dataLayer — verify in Shopify Admin → Settings → Customer Events.

Consideration

Product Detail Page Viewcritical
view_itemMeta: ViewContentfound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'view_item' only fires on product detail pages. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Cart Activity

Add to Cartcritical
add_to_cartMeta: AddToCartfound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'add_to_cart' only fires on product pages and cart. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Remove from Cartmedium
remove_from_cartfound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'remove_from_cart' only fires on cart page. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Cart / Bag Page Viewhigh
view_cartfound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'view_cart' only fires on cart page. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Checkout Funnel

Begin Checkoutcritical
begin_checkoutMeta: InitiateCheckoutfound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'begin_checkout' only fires on checkout entry page. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Shipping Info Enteredhigh
add_shipping_infofound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'add_shipping_info' only fires on checkout shipping step. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Payment Info Enteredhigh
add_payment_infoMeta: AddPaymentInfofound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'add_payment_info' only fires on checkout payment step. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Purchase / Order Confirmationcritical
purchaseMeta: Purchasefound in JS ✓

Not observable on home pages — 'purchase' only fires on order confirmation / thank-you page. Audit that page type to verify coverage.

Post-Purchase

Refund / Order Cancellationlow
refund

This event fires server-side (server-side or order management system) and cannot be observed by a browser-based audit.

Multi-page Coverage — 1 additional page checked

The audit automatically visited additional page types discovered on the site to verify tags fire across the full funnel, not just on the entry page.

Collection/collections/shop-summer
GTM: not loadedGA4: firingTikTok Pixel, Google (gtag.js), Meta Pixel +2
gtm.domgtm.load
JavaScript errors (5)

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_FAILED

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 ()

Error loading Json data (primary & fallback): Error: HTTP error

Your tracking has gaps — PayHelm can fix this.

Broken tags mean lost attribution and bad decisions. PayHelm unifies your ecommerce, ad, and analytics data so every number is trustworthy — no guesswork.

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