What does axios.com track?
Before any consent, axios.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 6 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.axios.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 20
- Cookies in total
- 16
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads16 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, ep2.adtrafficquality.google, ep1.adtrafficquality.google
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Segment5 requestsAnalytics
cdn.segment.com, api.segment.io
- Parse.ly2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.parsely.com, p1.parsely.com
- Marfeel1 requestAnalytics
sdk.mrf.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- newsroom.bi3 requestsUnclassified
events.newsroom.bi
- Stripe6 requestsFunctional
js.stripe.com, m.stripe.network, m.stripe.com
- Sentry4 requestsFunctional
o87425.ingest.sentry.io
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | axios.com | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | axios.com | 13 months |
| _ga_L57KHWNV81 | Analytics | axios.com | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-87586659-18 | Analytics | axios.com | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | axios.com | 1 day |
| ajs_anonymous_id | Analytics | axios.com | 12 months |
| ax | Unclassified | axios.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | axios.com | Under a day |
| __stripe_mid | Functional | www.axios.com | 12 months |
| __stripe_sid | Functional | www.axios.com | Under a day |
| _parsely_session | Functional | axios.com | Under a day |
| _parsely_visitor | Functional | axios.com | 13 months |
| m | Functional | m.stripe.com (third party) | 13 months |
| __eoi | Necessary | axios.com | 6 months |
| next-auth.callback-url | Necessary | www.axios.com | Session |
| next-auth.csrf-token | Necessary | www.axios.com | Session |
The page also wrote 5 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.