Conversion Tracking: Troubleshooting conversion tracking status
This page goes over issues and troubleshooting for Google Ads tags. If you're looking for Google Tag Manager, go to Troubleshoot issues for Google tags.
If you've set up Google Ads conversion tracking to monitor when your ads lead to valuable actions such as website purchases or calls to a phone number on your website, there are several ways for you to check that conversions are being recorded correctly. If they aren’t being recorded correctly, you can troubleshoot problems with your conversion tracking tag (the snippet of code you or your webmaster installed on your website). You can:
- Verify that Google Ads can "see" your tag and is recording conversions within your account.
- Use other tools and methods to check that the tag is installed in the right place and uses the right code parameters.
- Review a few common problems to check for if conversions aren't being recorded properly.
Troubleshoot conversion tracking status
Note: You might not see all of these statuses in your account just yet. Some status details are gradually rolling out and may not be visible in your account yet.
- Go to Summary within the Goals menu
.
- Here, you can view a table where you can find all of your conversion actions.
- At the top of the page, you can view all conversion related notifications and suggested actions you can take to improve your conversion measurement.
- The "Status" column provides information about your conversion actions and how they’re performing so far.
- Click the status of the conversion you want to troubleshoot to view the alerts. For more details or to view a complete list of alerts for that conversion, click View details or View all issues.
Your conversion actions have 5 different overview statuses, which can be viewed in the “Summary” section of the “Conversions” page.
- Active: An “Active” conversion action overview status is highlighted in green and indicates that everything is working as intended. Hover over the status to view additional details.
- Needs attention: A “Needs attention” conversion action overview status is highlighted in yellow and indicates there are action items to address but haven’t stopped recording conversions entirely. Hover over the status to view additional details and any next steps to take.
- Misconfigured: Conversions have stopped recording entirely due to a setup error or a broken tag. Hover over the status to view the steps to restore your conversion measurement.
- Awaiting conversions: No conversions have been recorded in the last 7 days. This typically means the conversion action was created under 48 hours ago, your campaigns are paused, or website traffic is currently too low to trigger a conversion.
- Removed: The conversion action has been manually deleted or archived and is no longer tracking data.
Which status is displayed with your conversion action?
Was this helpful?
How can we improve it?
