What does elsevier.com track?
Before any consent, elsevier.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 0 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.elsevier.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 7
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- New Relic13 requestsAnalytics
js-agent.newrelic.com, bam.nr-data.net
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- ffycdn.net6 requestsUnclassified
media.ffycdn.net
- OneTrust1 requestConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org
- Contentful14 requestsContent delivery
images.ctfassets.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| correlationId | Unclassified | elsevier.com | 30 days |
| experience | Unclassified | www.elsevier.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | elsevier.com | Under a day |
| country | Functional | www.elsevier.com | Session |
| JSESSIONID | Functional | nr-data.net (third party) | Session |
Understanding this page
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