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Why does Google Ads report 20-30% fewer conversions than WooCommerce order count?
The gap is structural. Google Ads only counts a conversion when it can trace a click to a purchase through an unbroken attribution chain —...
What changed in TCF v2.3 and how does it affect WooCommerce consent banners?
TCF v2.3's biggest change is the mandatory Disclosed Vendors segment—every TC string must now list every vendor shown in the consent UI, and Google's systems...
How does a first-party server preserve a gclid that Safari Link Tracking Protection strips?
Safari's Intelligent Tracking Prevention strips or truncates query parameters like gclid after page load, so a client-side tag that reads the URL may see a...
What is the 1,000-event threshold for GA4 behavioral modeling and why do most WooCommerce stores miss it?
GA4's behavioral modeling for consent mode uses machine learning to estimate the behaviour of users who decline analytics cookies, based on users who accept. But...
How long should a WooCommerce store wait before evaluating a Google Ads campaign?
At least two to three full conversion cycles — typically 14 to 21 days for most WooCommerce stores, and up to 6 weeks for Performance...
What is the OAIQ JavaScript pixel and how does ChatGPT Ads conversion tracking work for WooCommerce?
The OAIQ pixel is OpenAI's browser-side JavaScript SDK — loaded from bzrcdn.openai.com — that tracks events on a WooCommerce store after a ChatGPT ad click....
What happens if Enhanced Conversions double-hashes customer data before sending it to Google?
The match rate drops to near zero. Google's Enhanced Conversions expects customer data — email, phone, name, address — to be SHA-256 hashed exactly once...
What is Meta Signals Gateway and how is it different from the Conversions API Gateway for WooCommerce?
Meta Signals Gateway is Meta's newer, unified server-side event pipeline that replaces the original Conversions API (CAPI) Gateway. Both let you send purchase, add-to-cart, and...
What is the Google Ads conversion modeling threshold and can a small WooCommerce store meet it?
Google Ads requires roughly 700 ad clicks over a 7-day period per country-and-domain grouping before consent-mode conversion modeling activates — and most small WooCommerce stores...
Does iOS 26 strip UTM parameters or only click IDs like gclid and fbclid?
iOS 26 Link Tracking Protection strips user-identifiable click IDs — gclid, fbclid, msclkid, and dclid — but leaves standard UTM parameters untouched. Apple classifies utm_source,...
Does WooCommerce track what customers search for on your site?
No — WooCommerce core logs orders and products, but records nothing about your on-site search: not the query typed, not which results appeared, not whether...
Why doesn't WooCommerce have built-in conversion rate tracking?
Because WooCommerce was built as a catalog and order-management system, not an analytics platform. Its native reports show revenue, orders, and product performance, but they...