What does alamy.com track?
Before any consent, alamy.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 4 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.alamy.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded Termly, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- New Relic6 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- AB Tasty5 requestsAnalytics
try.abtasty.com
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- impactradius-event.com1 requestUnclassified
d.impactradius-event.com
- ewrvdi.net1 requestUnclassified
alamy-ltd.ewrvdi.net
- Termly7 requestsConsent banner
app.termly.io
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was brwsr, from LinkedIn, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| brwsr | Advertising | ewrvdi.net (third party) | 12 months |
| IR_gbd | Advertising | alamy.com | Session |
| IR_PI | Advertising | alamy.com | 12 months |
| UID | Advertising | alamy.com | Session |
| csrf_token | Unclassified | www.alamy.com | 30 days |
| Currency | Unclassified | alamy.com | Session |
| impid | Unclassified | www.alamy.com | 30 days |
| IR_10905 | Unclassified | alamy.com | Session |
| irld | Unclassified | alamy-ltd.ewrvdi.net (third party) | 6 months |
| PageCount | Unclassified | www.alamy.com | Session |
| Session | Unclassified | alamy.com | Session |
| sessionLP | Unclassified | www.alamy.com | Session |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | alamy-ltd.ewrvdi.net (third party) | 7 days |
The page also wrote 3 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.