What does backblaze.com track?
Before any consent, backblaze.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.backblaze.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 13
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust13 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google14 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, ajax.googleapis.com, www.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Schema App3 requestsFunctional
cdn.schemaapp.com, data.schemaapp.com
- Webflow44 requestsContent delivery
cdn.prod.website-files.com
- Cloudflare2 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
d3e54v103j8qbb.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _cheq_rti | Unclassified | backblaze.com | 12 months |
| _cq_s | Unclassified | backblaze.com | 7 days |
| _cq_session | Unclassified | backblaze.com | 13 months |
| cg_uuid | Unclassified | obs.df1.backblaze.com | 11 months |
| _cq_duid | Functional | backblaze.com | 3 months |
| _cq_suid | Functional | backblaze.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | backblaze.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.