PixelSift for WooCommerce

No. By default the plugin makes no external calls. Scans request your own store’s pages from your own server, and results stay in your WordPress database. Nothing is sent to us or to any third party.

No. PixelSift does not track you, your visitors or your customers, and it does not load any external scripts.

No. PixelSift is read-only. It never changes, disables or removes other plugins, themes or tags. It reports what it finds, tells you how to fix it and links to the right settings screen. You make the change in the plugin, theme or tag manager that adds the tag.

No. PixelSift runs one background scan shortly after activation (through WP-Cron). After that, scans run only when you start one from the admin screen or WP-CLI. There are no recurring scans. A scan loads five pages from your own server, one after another. Nothing is added to the pages your visitors see; the extra attribution work only runs on the scanner’s own requests, which carry a one-time token.

The home page, a product page, the cart page, the checkout page and the order-received page of your own store. The product page is your newest published, visible, in-stock simple product (or any published product if there is none). To see the cart and checkout as a shopper would, the scanner adds that product to a temporary guest cart, and deletes that cart session when the scan ends. The order-received page is loaded without an order, so purchase events are worked out from your tracking plugins’ settings and from the plugins hooked into order completion. If your store has no products, the product page is skipped and the cart and checkout are scanned empty.

Yes, if you use them. PixelSift does not install tags. It checks that the tags those plugins add are not duplicated or misconfigured.

Many consent tools leave the tag in the page but switch it off until consent (for example as type="text/plain" ). PixelSift still finds those tags. Tags that a consent tool injects only after consent, and that are not in the page code at all, will not appear in a scan. Treat a “missing tag” or “no purchase event” finding on a consent-managed store as something to check by hand. PixelSift 0.1.2 has not yet been tested against specific consent plugins.

Universal Analytics (UA-XXXXX-Y IDs) stopped processing data in 2023 (2024 for Analytics 360). Old UA snippets still on your pages add page weight and no data. PixelSift lists them so you can remove them.

Only the latest scan result (the tags found, findings, score and short code excerpts as evidence) is stored, in one WordPress option ( pixelsift_report ). The list of findings you marked as reviewed is stored in a second option. Each new scan replaces the previous result. No visitor or customer data is stored. Deleting the plugin from the Plugins screen removes all of its options, transients and scheduled events.

No. PixelSift for WooCommerce is free forever. Every feature is included. There is no paid tier, subscription, or hosted upsell, and this version contains no code that connects to any paid service.

No. It is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Automattic, WooCommerce, Google or Meta.