What does dns.com track?
Before any consent, dns.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 8 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.dns.com/zh once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 8
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 15
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads7 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, www.googleadservices.com, ad.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics9 requestsAnalytics
region1.analytics.google.com, www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- spst1.com2 requestsUnclassified
01989733-afce-7b7e-950e-6655a15a9cfb.spst1.com
- dnssio.com2 requestsUnclassified
stat.dnssio.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.google.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was locale, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | dns.com | 3 months |
| locale | Advertising | www.dns.com | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | dns.com | 13 months |
| _ga_EH9KYPEM96 | Analytics | dns.com | 13 months |
| _ga_R2N650YLY6 | Analytics | dns.com | 13 months |
| _ga_S1WLYTS8S9 | Analytics | dns.com | 13 months |
| _pk_id.2.d3ac | Analytics | www.dns.com | 13 months |
| _pk_ses.2.d3ac | Analytics | www.dns.com | Under a day |
| _chatwoot_session | Unclassified | chat.dns.com | Session |
| cw_conversation | Unclassified | www.dns.com | 12 months |
| dns_com_session | Unclassified | www.dns.com | Session |
| f | Unclassified | dns.com | 30 days |
| is_f | Unclassified | dns.com | 30 days |
| is_f_k | Unclassified | dns.com | 30 days |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Necessary | www.dns.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 8 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.