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UNREALMANGO

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01 Server-Side Tracking / Senior direction

Server-SideTracking

Measurement that survives the browser. We build and run the server-side tracking setup — tagging server, first-party endpoint, server-to-server feeds — and tell you first whether your spend is big enough to justify owning one.

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02 Overview

What isServer-Side Tracking

Server-side tracking moves the collection point for analytics and ad events off the visitor’s browser and onto a server you control. The browser sends one request to an endpoint on your own domain, and that server forwards each event to Google, Meta and the rest over server-to-server APIs.

It gets sold as a fix for everything and fixes about half of it. It recovers signal lost to blockers, failed scripts and short browser cookie lifetimes. It does not remove your consent obligations, it cannot invent events nobody collected, and below a certain ad spend the hosting and upkeep cost more than the signal is worth. We size that gap first, then build — and we will say so if the answer is that you should not buy this yet.

03 Scope

What’sincluded

  • 01Measurement audit and data-loss sizing
  • 02Tagging server and first-party subdomain
  • 03GA4, Google Ads and Meta CAPI feeds
  • 04Consent Mode and CMP integration
  • 05Event QA, deduplication and monitoring
  • 06Migration from client-side tags

04 Process

How wework

  1. 01

    Audit and sizing

    We measure what your current tags are losing, price the fix against it, and tell you if the numbers say wait.

  2. 02

    Build and validate

    Tagging server, first-party endpoint and event feeds, then event-by-event QA against your platforms before anything is trusted.

  3. 03

    Monitor and adjust

    Alerting on the feeds, checks after every platform change, and a report you can reconcile against your ad accounts.

05 Why us

Why UnrealMango

01

Sized before it’s sold

We measure what you’re actually losing first. If the number doesn’t justify a tagging server, we tell you.

02

Built by the operators

The implementation is done by the people who own the agency and run this stack on their own businesses.

03

Consent respected, not routed around

Your banner stays, your server honours it. This is a transport change, not a legal shortcut.

04

Watched after launch

Event QA and monitoring, because a silently broken server feed looks exactly like a quiet month.

06 Direction

Server-Side Tracking / OUTPUT LOCKED

Ad platforms and analyticsthat finally see theconversions your browser-side tagswere quietly losing.

Ad platforms and analytics that finally see the conversions your browser-side tags were quietly losing.

  1. 01Measurement audit and data-loss sizing
  2. 02Tagging server and first-party subdomain
  3. 03GA4, Google Ads and Meta CAPI feeds
  4. 04Consent Mode and CMP integration
System alignedREADY FOR EXECUTION
SERVICE OUTPUTREADY

07 Questions

Frequentlyaskedquestions

01What does a server-side tracking setup involve?+

A tagging server on infrastructure you own, a first-party endpoint on a subdomain of your site, clients and tags configured to forward events to GA4, Google Ads, Meta and your CRM over server-to-server APIs, consent signals passed through from your CMP, then deduplication, QA and ongoing monitoring.

02Is this a one-off build or an ongoing engagement?+

Both halves exist and you can stop after the first. The build is a fixed piece of work — audit, tagging server, feeds, QA, handover. After that most clients keep us on a monthly retainer for monitoring and changes, because a server feed that breaks quietly looks exactly like a slow month until someone checks. The retainer is scaled to how complex your event model is, and it sits on top of the hosting your tagging server needs.

03Do you work with our existing Google Tag Manager setup?+

Usually yes. Most implementations start from the client-side container you already have: we audit what it fires, keep the events that are correct, move the ones worth moving to the server container, and retire the tags that duplicate each other. A rebuild from scratch only makes sense when the existing event model is wrong at the root, and we would show you why before proposing it.

04Will it recover the conversions our ad platforms are missing?+

Some of them, and we will tell you roughly how many before you commit. It recovers events lost to tracking blockers, script failures and shortened browser cookie lifetimes. It cannot recover conversions that were never collected, and it does not fix a broken attribution model underneath.

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