Parse.ly
AnalyticsParse.ly loaded on 44 sites in our October 2026 scan: 2% of the 2,450 most-visited sites we checked, before any visitor had given consent.
Category: Analytics. A company can do several jobs; this is its main role on the pages we saw.
Its cookies typically last about under a day. On 77% of the sites where it loaded, a consent banner was already present but hadn't been answered yet. It's especially common on .com.br sites: 4% of them load it, versus 2% of all sites we scanned.
About Parse.ly
Parse.ly, acquired by Automattic in 2021, is a content-analytics platform built for newsrooms and publishers.
Its script from cdn.parsely.com reports reading behavior, like scroll depth and time spent, back to Parse.ly, assigning the visitor a session identifier in a cookie such as _parsely_session.
Often loaded alongside
Sites that load Parse.ly most often also load Google Ads (89%), Google Analytics (82%), Google (68%), Amazon Advertising (55%), and OneTrust (50%).
Domains it loads from
- cdn.parsely.com
- p1.parsely.com
- api.parsely.com
- experiments.parsely.com
- tr-experiments.parsely.com
- srv-2026-10-02-11.pixel.parsely.com
Cookies
- _parsely_session31 sites
- _parsely_visitor31 sites
Sites that load Parse.ly
The highest-ranked 30 of 44 sites.
- harvard.edu4 tracking companies
- nasa.gov3 tracking companies
- accuweather.com3 tracking companies
- techcrunch.com38 tracking companies
- cnet.com6 tracking companies
- apnews.com14 tracking companies
- nbcnews.com20 tracking companies
- whitehouse.gov2 tracking companies
- nypost.com8 tracking companies
- usnews.com4 tracking companies
Show 20 more sites
- newyorker.com3 tracking companies
- pewresearch.org6 tracking companies
- zdnet.com8 tracking companies
- vice.com14 tracking companies
- fastcompany.com17 tracking companies
- sport24.gr8 tracking companies
- vox.com10 tracking companies
- nielsen.com10 tracking companies
- inc.com18 tracking companies
- slate.com20 tracking companies
- entrepreneur.com7 tracking companies
- axios.com5 tracking companies
- woocommerce.com5 tracking companies
- gamespot.com8 tracking companies
- virginia.edu7 tracking companies
- rottentomatoes.com6 tracking companies
- today.com19 tracking companies
- elle.com4 tracking companies
- esquire.com4 tracking companies
- walkme.com2 tracking companies
Understanding this page
- What the tracker categories mean
What "advertising," "analytics," "social," "consent" and the rest actually mean for a company or a cookie, and how CookieTosser decides which one applies.
- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
What the distinction actually means technically, why browsers only block one of the two, and how CNAME cloaking, server-side tagging and cookies like _ga let sites keep tracking under their own domain.
- How to block or limit trackers
Browser privacy settings, content blockers, Global Privacy Control and clearing cookies compared honestly — what each one actually stops, what it doesn't, and what it costs you in return.