Do you need server-side tracking? A quick checklist for marketers
Do you really need server-side tracking? This simple sensical checklist for marketers will help you decide.
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Do you really need server-side tracking? This simple sensical checklist for marketers will help you decide.
There's a moment that happens fairly consistently when someone connects their site to Tiide for the first time. They look at the dashboard and see, often for the first time in concrete terms, the scale of what their client-side tracking was missing.
If you've just set up server-side tracking – or you're looking at a dashboard that mentions recovered events – you might be wondering what exactly that means.
If your agency has raised server-side tracking with you, you've probably been given a technical-sounding explanation and are now quietly wondering whether this is something you actually need. Here's why their advice is good.
Your clients don't think about tracking infrastructure. They think about leads, revenue, ROAS and whether last month was better than the month before. That's their job.
Server-side tracking saves money. Real, recoverable budget that is currently being wasted because your data is telling you the wrong story.
Most businesses don't know their tracking is broken. The data still flows. Reports still populate. Numbers still appear in dashboards. But beneath the surface, significant chunks of conversion data are going missing – and every gap is costing money in wasted spend and missed optimisation.