Troubleshoot: Config command out of order

Identify the issue

The "Config command out of order" error appears in Tag diagnostics when an event command is coded on one or more pages of your website before a gtag config command with any of the following settings:

client_id
cookie_domain
cookie_path
cookie_prefix
first_party_collection
linker
server_container_url
session_id
transport_url
user_id

Placing an event command before a config command may lead to unexpected issues during the sending and processing of these events.

Fix the issue

Tag diagnostics lists the URL for each page where an event command has been placed before a config command. To resolve this error on affected pages of your website, verify that the code on each page correctly positions the config command before any event commands.

Show me an example

The following is an example of the HTML for a web page where the "Config command out of order" error message appears in Tag diagnostics:

<!DOCTYPE html>

        <html lang="en">

        <head>

            <!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->

            <script async src="https://googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=ignoredABCDEF"></script>

            <script>

            window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];

            function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}

            gtag('js', new Date());

        

            gtag('config', 'ignoredABCDEF');

            </script>

        

            <script>

            gtag("event", "generate_lead", {

                send_to: "ignored1234567',

                currency: "USD",

                value: 99.99

            });

    gtag('config', 'ignored1234567', {

                'user_id': 'id'

            });

    </script>

        </head>

        </html>

To resolve this error on the affected page, you can rearrange the event and config commands so the config command loads on the page before the event command is triggered:

<!DOCTYPE html>

      <html lang="en">

      <head>

          <!-- Google tag (gtag.js) -->

          <script async src="https://googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=ignoredABCDEF"></script>

          <script>

          window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];

          function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}

          gtag('js', new Date());

      

          gtag('config', 'ignoredABCDEF');

    gtag('config', 'ignored1234567', {

              'user_id': 'U1234'

          });

          </script>

      

          <script>

          gtag("event", "generate_lead", {

              send_to: "ignored1234567',

              currency: "USD",

              value: 99.99

          });

          </script>

      </head>

      </html>

Was this helpful?

How can we improve it?

Troubleshoot: Config command out of order

Identify the issue

Fix the issue

Show me an example

Was this helpful?

Need more help?

Try these next steps: