What does business-standard.com track?
Before any consent, business-standard.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.business-standard.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 19
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, 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
2 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads10 requestsAdvertising
www3.doubleclick.net, securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, www.googleadservices.com, ad.doubleclick.net
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics7 requestsAnalytics
region1.analytics.google.com, www.googletagmanager.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- clevertap-prod.com3 requestsUnclassified
in1.clevertap-prod.com
- ebxcdn.com2 requestsUnclassified
applets.ebxcdn.com
- Google4 requestsFunctional
marketingplatform.google.com, www.google.com, fundingchoicesmessages.google.com
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
d2r1yp2w7bby2u.cloudfront.net
- Google Cloud1 requestContent delivery
mpc2-prod-29-is5qnl632q-uc.a.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 | business-standard.com | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | business-standard.com | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | business-standard.com | 13 months |
| _ga_KRGL1M61LX | Analytics | business-standard.com | 13 months |
| _scor_uid | Unclassified | business-standard.com | 13 months |
| userUid | Unclassified | business-standard.com | 13 months |
| WZRK_G | Unclassified | business-standard.com | 12 months |
| WZRK_S_464-W5K-4W7Z | Unclassified | business-standard.com | Under a day |
| _sid | Functional | business-standard.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 18 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.