Google Tag Manager aims to make it easy for you to manage JavaScript code on your site


Google Tag Manager aims to make it easy for you to manage JavaScript code on your site

Google has launched a new tool that can come handy for corporate users.

Google Tag Manager is designed to provide a backend to manage JavaScript code that power analytic tools on websites.

The service also allows you to add third party code. You can even add non-JS code. Google is offering easier integration with their own services like Google Analytics.

Google offers their own code that you can add to the body of your website. And then you can control multiple JavaScript tags from their backend.

The service is free and has some limitations. Google said:

Google Tag Manager is quick, intuitive, and designed to let marketers add or change tags whenever they want, while also giving their IT and webmaster colleagues confidence that the site is running smoothly—and loading quickly—so that your users are never left hanging.

Tags that are not supported yet:

Synchronously loading tags.
Certain tags with snippets in the header and the footer. While you can use event based rules on gtm.load to fire some of these tags, two-part tags usually imply some need for synchronously loading tags.
Tags that use document.write, either in the snippet or in the linked JavaScript.
Tags that are associated with in-page structure, such as social sharing widgets or ad serving tags.