Verify your installation

1. Verify in the dashboard

On Install banner, click Verify. Okito opens your live site and looks for the Okito script with your website key. The early blocker line (blocker.js) on its own is not enough: it shows no banner, so paste the whole installation code (with Google Tag Manager, see below).

When the script is found, Okito also checks the order of the tags written in your page's HTML and lists what to fix:

• the Consent Mode snippet is missing or comes after Google Tag Manager or gtag.js;
• your banner uses IAB TCF but the TCF stub is missing or comes after Google tags (or the page has a stub it doesn't need);
• the early blocker is not the first script, or has async or defer (Next.js's and Nuxt's own chunk files above it, under /_next/static/ or /_nuxt/ and with async, defer, type="module" or nomodule, are fine; any other script the browser runs above it counts, your site's own included);
• an optimisation plugin delays the Okito script or the Consent Mode snippet;
• the Okito script is on the page twice, or another consent tool is installed.

This check only sees the HTML: tags that Google Tag Manager or other scripts add later are not included. The consent mode check and debug mode look at what actually ran.

Verification needs a public HTTPS address. It fails on localhost, password-protected staging sites and sites that block unknown visitors.

With Google Tag Manager

Verify reads only the HTML your server sends, so it can't see the Okito tag that Google Tag Manager adds and does not confirm a GTM install: it reminds you to publish the container and check that the Okito tag fires on the page. If your page's HTML has only the early blocker line (blocker.js) and a GTM container, Verify says only the early blocker was found and gives both answers. If the Okito script comes from the Okito GTM template, that is expected: publish the container and check that the Okito tag fires. Don't paste the Okito script as well; GTM loads it. If you use GTM only for other tags, the Okito script line is missing: paste the whole installation code (the Okito script goes below the early blocker). Check a GTM install with Preview in GTM and debug mode.

2. Look at the banner

Open your site in a private window with ad blockers turned off:

• The banner appears.
• Accept All, Reject All and Save preferences close it, and it stays closed after a reload.
• The reopen button lets you change your choice.

3. Check the load order

Add ?okito_debug=1 to your page address. Okito shows a box in the bottom-left corner:

• Green: the consent mode default was set before your Google tags.
• Yellow: a Google tag ran first. The box explains how to fix it.

See Debug mode.

4. Check all your pages

Run a cookie scan. Every scan also runs the consent mode check on each page it opens and lists any page where the Okito script is missing or a Google tag ran too early.

Common problems