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title: "Verifying Microsoft Edge"
slug: "verifying-microsoft-edge"
updated: 2024-06-12T18:33:23Z
published: 2024-06-12T18:33:23Z
canonical: "onpremises.webtrends.help/verifying-microsoft-edge"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://onpremises.webtrends.help/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Verifying Microsoft Edge

## Testing in Microsoft EDGE

1. Open a page that is thought to be tagged with the Webtrends SharePoint Tag, such as the Home page of a site collection.
2. Open the **Developer Tools**. This can be done by: a. Pressing **F12** on the keyboard b. Clicking the **...** icon in the upper right of the browser, then clicking **Developer Tools** from the menu. ![MS Edge Elipses](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Elipses.PNG)

          Note

          

You can pop the **Developer Tools** window into its own window by clicking the **Unpin** icon in the upper right of the window ![MS Edge Popout](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Popout.PNG)
3. Click on the **Debugger** tab near the middle of the list of tabs the top. ![MS Edge Debugger Tab](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Debugger%20Tab.PNG)
4. Click the small grey **folder** icon on the upper left of the screen and search for **webtrends** to display the list of loaded Webtrends files, or scroll down to the **w’s** in the list that appears. ![MS Edge Webtrends Files](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Webtrends%20Files.PNG)
5. Verify you see the Webtrends JavaScript files as noted in the Webtrends JavaScript Files section.
6. Click on the **Network** tab near the middle of the list of tabs the top. ![image.png](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/image%285%29%281%29.png)
7. Click on the *green* **Play** button to **Enable network traffic capturing**, or by pressing **F5** on the keyboard.
8. Return to the browser window.
9. Refresh the page or press **F5** on the keyboard.
10. Scroll down through the list of entries and search for a row heading to **statse.webtrendslive.com** that also has **dcs.gif** in the URL. ![MS Edge Hit](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Hit.PNG)

          Note:

          

If you see a row with **sdc.yourdomain.com** and **wtid.js** in the URL, but do *not* see a row with **dcs.gif**, you may have the **DCSID** value set incorrectly. This causes the SDC server to *reject* the request, and the tag will not continue.

The **DCSID** should appear in the URL similar to below, starting with *dcs* and consisting of randomized *alpha-numeric* characters, followed by an underscore, and four additional *alpha-numeric* characters.

sdc.yourdomain.com/**dcsxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx_xxxx**/dcs.gif

There should be no leading or trailing *text* or *whitespace* in the value.
11. Select the **dcs.gif** row.
12. Click the **Parameters** in the right side panel.
13. Review the list of parameters and their data on interactions to verify the data sent to Webtrends. ![MS Edge Parameters](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Parameters.PNG)
14. To verify link tracking, return to the **Developer Tools > Network** window.
15. Click the **X** icon to clear all entries ![MS Edge Clear Session](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Clear%20Session.PNG)
16. Return to the *browser* window.
17. Find a *link* you wish to test. a. If **Collect all links clicks?** (app method), or the **allClick** option in the webtrends.load.js file (manual or WSP method) are true, clicks to any **<a>** link on the page should trigger a hit. b. If these options are *not* enabled, only some links will be expected to pass data. Navigate to a document library and use a*document link* or*Hover Card* or*Ribbon* link to test.
18. *Left* click on the desired link, but **do not let go** of the mouse button. Drag the mouse slightly, then let go of the mouse button. a. This should cause the link click **hit** to be *sent*, but the browser will not move to the next page. This allows you to review the data while still staying on the same page. Multiple links can be quickly tested using this technique.

          Note:

          

There is also a **Clear entries on navigate** button in the top of the **Network** tab that will keep or discard all the traffic when moving to another page.

Turn it off, so that if you fully click on a link and move to the next page the link click hit will not be lost in the process and it should appear as the next line in the list.

![MS Edge Clear on Navigate](https://cdn.document360.io/0afe9842-6601-4812-b9e2-2726979f2233/Images/Documentation/MS%20Edge%20Clear%20on%20Navigate.PNG)
19. Review the data in the link click hit by repeating the last few steps.

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