What does biorxiv.org track?
Before any consent, biorxiv.org loaded 3 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.biorxiv.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 8
- Cookies in total
- 7
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Pingdom2 requestsAnalytics
rum-static.pingdom.net, rum-collector-2.pingdom.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- icons8.com1 requestUnclassified
img.icons8.com
- jsDelivr7 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
d33xdlntwy0kbs.cloudfront.net
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ce.s | Analytics | biorxiv.org | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | biorxiv.org | 13 months |
| _ga_RZD586MC3Q | Analytics | biorxiv.org | 13 months |
| __cf_ob | Unclassified | www.biorxiv.org | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | www.biorxiv.org | Under a day |
| cf_clearance | Functional | www.biorxiv.org | 12 months |
| has_js | Functional | www.biorxiv.org | Session |
The page also wrote 2 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
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- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
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- 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.