Google Consent Mode Checker

Verify your Google consent mode setup by using our Google Consent Mode Checker.

1. Log into the Cookiebot CMP Admin
2. Select Domains and Aliases
3. Select the domain you want to check
4. Scroll down to the Google Consent Mode Check section
5. Click the Start GCM check button

Consent Mode Check - No errors detected

Consent Mode Check - At risk

The Google Consent Mode Check is a tool that allows you to verify your Google consent mode implementation and identify any immediate risks affecting your domain(s). The tool requires approximately 10-15 seconds to finish scanning and will provide you with a report on whether risks have been identified.

Your report will be available for 30 days and you can request a new scan at any time (e.g. if you have made any changes in your Google consent mode setup).

The Google Consent Mode Check is a “sanity check” on whether you have any immediate risks, seen from a best-practice perspective. There could be risks highlighted which might not cause your specific website any legal risks, depending on the legislation affecting your domain’s market. Please always have your legal team assess whether the risks are indeed relevant for your website.

Version label

In version 2 of consent mode two additional parameters were introduced; ad_user_data and ad_personalization. will be displayed if these two parameters are set and if they're missing.

General state
If consent mode is correctly configured and all checks are passed you should see in the upper right corner.
Conversely, if there are one or multiple checks that failed you should see  instead.

General checks

The following are the major checks, they indicate whether the basic requirements are met.

• GCM consent states are (NOT) set as "default"
  This conclusion is derived on whether or not you consent parameters have been set-up with default consent states, based on the best-practice interpretation “denied” prior a consent.
  These settings are added when you've implemented Cookiebot CMP using the tag template in Google Tag Manager, implemented consent mode via our WordPress plugin, or if you've added the inline consent mode script.
• Cookiebot to GCM signaling is (NOT) active
  This checks whether the signaling from the banner to the dataLayer is working as intended, and updating the data value for GCM. If this “risk” this might indicate that you GTM/GCM triggers are not set-up correctly
• (No) Non-essential Google trackers set prior to consent
  This is a minor sanity check on whether a selection of non-essential Google trackers are being set in the browser prior to a consent. This could indicate whether your triggers or tags have been correctly configured in Google Tag Manager.
  If this check fails, tags/services load without consent.

Consent parameters

Here each consent mode parameter is listed with their recommended and actual default states. If the actual state matches the recommended default state you should see the label.
Conversely, you'll see the  label if the actual state doesn't match the recommended state or if it's "not set".