Cookie & tracker check
Loads the page like a first-time visitor who has clicked nothing, and lists every tracker script and every cookie that is already there. Under EU ePrivacy rules that is exactly what needs consent first.
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How it works
- We request the page once, with no cookies and nothing clicked — the state of a brand-new visitor.
- The HTML is searched for known tracker snippets and third-party scripts; the response headers for Set-Cookie.
- We look for a consent banner or a consent-management script, and check whether the trackers are wired to wait for it.
- Each finding says what it is and what to do — usually "load this only after consent".
Questions people ask
Why does loading a tracker before consent matter?
The ePrivacy rules (implemented in every EU country) require consent before non-essential cookies or trackers are set. Analytics and advertising pixels are the textbook examples, and data-protection authorities have fined sites for exactly this.
Is a cookie banner enough?
Only if the trackers actually wait for the click. Many sites show a banner while Google Analytics has already fired — the banner is decoration. This tool sees the page the way the crawler does, before any click.
Which cookies are fine without consent?
Strictly necessary ones: the session cookie, a CSRF token, a cart, the cookie that remembers the consent choice itself. Analytics, advertising and most chat widgets are not.
The tool found a tracker but I use a consent tool. Why?
Some setups load the tracker script and only block the data hit; others load it in "consent mode". We can only see what the HTML loads; if your consent tool holds the script back until consent, the snippet is usually not in the initial HTML at all.
Can it see cookies set by JavaScript?
No — we read the HTTP response, not a running browser. Cookies set by scripts after load are not visible here, but the scripts that set them are, and those are what we report.
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