What does digitalocean.com track?
Before any consent, digitalocean.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 9 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.digitalocean.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 9
- Third-party hosts
- 18
- Cookies in total
- 21
Consent banner
The page loaded TrustArc, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Amplitude8 requestsAnalytics
sr-client-cfg.amplitude.com, cdn.amplitude.com, api2.amplitude.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- vector.co7 requestsUnclassified
api.vector.co, cdn.vector.co
- pocustrack.com2 requestsUnclassified
pocustrack.com, api-ingest.pocustrack.com
- adn.cloud1 requestUnclassified
tags.pw.adn.cloud
- TrustArc13 requestsConsent banner
consent.trustarc.com
- Sentry5 requestsFunctional
o1109393.ingest.us.sentry.io
- Schema App3 requestsFunctional
cdn.schemaapp.com, data.schemaapp.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
www.google.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _lc2_fpi, from LiveIntent, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | digitalocean.com | 3 months |
| _lc2_fpi | Advertising | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| _lc2_fpi_js | Advertising | digitalocean.com | Session |
| _li_dcdm_c | Advertising | digitalocean.com | Session |
| _ga | Analytics | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| _ga_TYR2BYTLL0 | Analytics | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| ajs_anonymous_id | Analytics | digitalocean.com | 12 months |
| AMP_deb86ab4f1 | Analytics | digitalocean.com | 12 months |
| AMP_MKTG_deb86ab4f1 | Analytics | digitalocean.com | 12 months |
| analytics_session_id | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 12 months |
| analytics_session_id.last_access | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 12 months |
| EXP_deb86ab4f1_identity | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 12 months |
| first_landing_page | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| last_landing_page | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| last_landing_page_timestamp | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| referrer | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| sessionID | Unclassified | www.digitalocean.com | Under a day |
| vector_visitor_id | Unclassified | digitalocean.com | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | digitalocean.com | Under a day |
| notice_behavior | Necessary | digitalocean.com | Session |
| TAsessionID | Necessary | digitalocean.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 12 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.