What does abc.net.au track?
Before any consent, abc.net.au loaded 4 tracking companies and set 11 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.abc.net.au once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 11
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 23
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Chartbeat8 requestsAnalytics
mabping.chartbeat.net, static.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net, mab.chartbeat.com
- Qualtrics6 requestsAnalytics
siteintercept.qualtrics.com, zn8cegmwgpcwcfqmq-abcfeedback.siteintercept.qualtrics.com, znafwtcfaxxaxgzds-abcfeedback.siteintercept.qualtrics.com
- Dotmetrics5 requestsAnalytics
au-script.dotmetrics.net, rm-script.dotmetrics.net
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- abc-cdn.net.au71 requestsUnclassified
live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au, static.abc-cdn.net.au
- Google10 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _cb, from Chartbeat, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| gig_bootstrap_3_fA1lYde7bHFw4kAQ_VLT37l-OacxV6xOkYAn0KOPFjrXyrlrovPpV1toELQLABDp | Advertising | abc.net.au | 12 months |
| gmid | Advertising | login.abc.net.au | 12 months |
| hasGmid | Advertising | login.abc.net.au | 6 months |
| ucid | Advertising | login.abc.net.au | 12 months |
| _cb | Analytics | abc.net.au | 13 months |
| _cb_svref | Analytics | abc.net.au | Under a day |
| _chartbeat2 | Analytics | abc.net.au | 13 months |
| _dd_s | Analytics | www.abc.net.au | 12 months |
| DotMetrics.DeviceKey | Analytics | dotmetrics.net (third party) | 12 months |
| DotMetrics.UniqueUserIdentityCookie | Analytics | dotmetrics.net (third party) | 12 months |
| sp | Analytics | abc.net.au | 12 months |
| _t_tests | Unclassified | abc.net.au | Under a day |
| ABC_FF | Unclassified | www.abc.net.au | Under a day |
| ABC_LD | Unclassified | abc.net.au | Session |
| ABC_NEWS_HP_VIEW | Unclassified | www.abc.net.au | 12 months |
| ABC_Snowplow_id.3f60 | Unclassified | abc.net.au | 13 months |
| ABC_Snowplow_ses.3f60 | Unclassified | abc.net.au | Under a day |
| ABCConsent | Unclassified | abc.net.au | 7 days |
| ABCGuestID | Unclassified | abc.net.au | 13 months |
| DM_SitId1615 | Unclassified | www.abc.net.au | Session |
| DM_SitId1615SecId13587 | Unclassified | www.abc.net.au | Session |
| QSI_S_ZN_8cEGmwgPcWCfQmq | Functional | www.abc.net.au | 7 days |
| QSI_S_ZN_afwtcfaXXAXGZds | Functional | www.abc.net.au | 7 days |
The page also wrote 13 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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