What does express.co.uk track?
Before any consent, express.co.uk loaded 6 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 83% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.express.co.uk once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 21
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 6 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 15 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Taboola8 requestsAdvertising
beacon.taboola.com, cdn.taboola.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Amplitude7 requestsAnalytics
cdn.amplitude.com, api.eu.amplitude.com, sr-client-cfg.eu.amplitude.com
- Dotmetrics4 requestsAnalytics
uk-script.dotmetrics.net, rm-script.dotmetrics.net
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
- Cxense (Piano)1 requestAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- webcontentassessor.com1 requestUnclassified
scripts.webcontentassessor.com
- tm-awx.com1 requestUnclassified
feliz-web-netro.data.tm-awx.com
- ocmthood.com1 requestUnclassified
sdk.ocmthood.com
- ocmtag.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.ocmtag.com
- InMobi Choice12 requestsConsent banner
cmp.inmobi.com, visit-server.inmobi-choice.io, api.cmp.inmobi.com
- Sourcepoint1 requestConsent banner
launchpad.privacymanager.io
- Google1 requestFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com
- Viafoura1 requestFunctional
livecomments.viafoura.co
- Ziff Davis1 requestContent delivery
metrics.rapidedge.io
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| pageCount | Unclassified | express.co.uk | Under a day |
| usprivacy | Functional | www.express.co.uk | 13 months |
The page also wrote 10 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.