Debug mode

Open any page of your site with ?okito_debug=1 at the end of the address, for example https://example.com/?okito_debug=1. Okito then checks whether the consent mode default and, for IAB TCF sites, the TCF API were in place before Google tags ran. It shows the result in a box at the bottom left of the page and in the browser console.

Debug mode stays on for the browser tab. Open a page with ?okito_debug=0 to turn it off. Developers can also set window.okitoDebug = true before the Okito script loads.

Green: everything is in order

• The Consent Mode default was set before any Google tag. Nothing to do.
• The Consent Mode default was set in Google Tag Manager's Consent Initialization (for example by the Okito GTM template), before any Google tag. Nothing to do. A tag on GTM's Consent Initialization trigger, such as the Okito GTM template, puts the default in the data layer after gtm.js, but GTM runs it before any other tag.
• No Google tag ran before Okito; Okito sets the Consent Mode default now. Also fine.
• A Google tag was queued before Okito loaded but had not run yet; Okito put the Consent Mode default in front of it. Google still reads the default first on this page view. This depends on Okito loading before Google's script, so for every page view to be safe, put the Consent Mode snippet above Google Tag Manager / gtag.js (Load order).
• The IAB TCF API (__tcfapi) is available to Google tags. (TCF sites.)

Yellow: a Google tag ran first

The box names the tag that ran too early (for example gtag("js") or Google Tag Manager) and tells you what to do:

1. First check whether that tag is served through Google tag gateway (a path on your own domain). If it is, follow the Google tag gateway steps.
2. Otherwise move the Okito Consent Mode snippet and the Okito script above Google Tag Manager / gtag.js in <head>. See Load order.

A default set on GTM's Consent Initialization trigger is shown in green (see above) when Google's consent state shows it was in time, or, with the Okito GTM template, when no gtag.js command was queued ahead of it. This never applies when Google records that the default was set late.

On IAB TCF sites, it also warns when Google tags ran before the TCF API was available. With the GTM template, tick My banner uses IAB TCF in the tag; see IAB TCF sites.

Basic mode and consent mode off

In basic consent mode (also used on Free and Beginner plans), the box says Okito blocks Google tags until the visitor consents, and that they then read the consent mode default and the visitor's choice. When you turn consent mode off in Banner Builder, it says so.

Check all pages at once

Debug mode checks one page. To check every page, use the Consent mode check, which runs with each cookie scan.