What does bankrate.com track?
Before any consent, bankrate.com loaded 9 tracking companies and set 20 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 91% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.bankrate.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 9
- Tracking cookies
- 20
- Third-party hosts
- 36
- Cookies in total
- 43
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 9 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 15 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads20 requestsAdvertising
googleads.g.doubleclick.net, www.googleadservices.com, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Taboola11 requestsAdvertising
trc.taboola.com, cdn.taboola.com, trc-events.taboola.com, pips.taboola.com
- Microsoft Advertising8 requestsAdvertising
bat.bing.com
- Quora Ads2 requestsAdvertising
a.quora.com, q.quora.com
- TikTok12 requestsSocial media
analytics.tiktok.com, analytics-ipv6.tiktokw.us
- Meta11 requestsSocial media
www.facebook.com, connect.facebook.net
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ofgreencolumn.com10 requestsUnclassified
obs.ofgreencolumn.com, ob.ofgreencolumn.com
- cohesionapps.com4 requestsUnclassified
cdn.cohesionapps.com, taggy.cohesionapps.com
- pointmediatracker.com1 requestUnclassified
pixel.pointmediatracker.com
- OneTrust6 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google13 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Google Cloud6 requestsContent delivery
mpc2-prod-26-is5qnl632q-uc.a.run.app, mpc-prod-21-1053047382554.us-central1.run.app
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | bankrate.com | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | bankrate.com | 3 months |
| _tt_enable_cookie | Advertising | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| _ttp | Advertising | tiktok.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ttp | Advertising | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| _uetsid | Advertising | bankrate.com | 1 day |
| _uetvid | Advertising | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| IDE | Advertising | doubleclick.net (third party) | 13 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| MUID | Advertising | bing.com (third party) | 13 months |
| t_gid | Advertising | taboola.com (third party) | 12 months |
| taboola_session_id | Advertising | taboola.com (third party) | Session |
| ttcsid | Advertising | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| ttcsid_D88ABQBC77UBL2TTP36G | Advertising | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| ttcsid_D9VLRBBC77UE58FDC7NG | Advertising | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| _dc_gtm_UA-55386262-1 | Analytics | bankrate.com | Under a day |
| _ga | Analytics | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| _ga_FY8QTRES9L | Analytics | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| _gid | Analytics | bankrate.com | 1 day |
| _cq_s | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 7 days |
| _cq_session | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| attr | Unclassified | bankrate.com | Under a day |
| cg_uuid | Unclassified | obs.ofgreencolumn.com (third party) | 11 months |
| chsn_cnsnt | Unclassified | www.bankrate.com | 13 months |
| cohsn_xs_id | Unclassified | cohesionapps.com (third party) | 13 months |
| cohsn_xs_id | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| FPC | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 7 days |
| fpID | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| hashID | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| tglr_anon_id | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| tglr_http_only | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| tglr_req | Unclassified | bankrate.com | Under a day |
| tglr_sess_count | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| tglr_sess_id | Unclassified | bankrate.com | Under a day |
| tglr_tenant_id | Unclassified | bankrate.com | 13 months |
| tglr_transit_id | Unclassified | bankrate.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| _cq_duid | Functional | bankrate.com | 3 months |
| _cq_suid | Functional | bankrate.com | Session |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | bankrate.com | 12 months |
| t_pt_gid | Functional | taboola.com (third party) | 12 months |
The page also wrote 10 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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