What does fandom.com track?
Before any consent, fandom.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 6 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.fandom.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 14
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
4 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- GumGum1 requestAdvertising
g2.gumgum.com
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- nocookie.net57 requestsUnclassified
static.wikia.nocookie.net
- wikia-services.com2 requestsUnclassified
beacon.wikia-services.com
- fastly-insights.com1 requestUnclassified
www.fastly-insights.com
- ad.gt1 requestUnclassified
seg.ad.gt
- OneTrust14 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org
- Google6 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | fandom.com | 13 months |
| _gat_fandomProd | Analytics | fandom.com | Under a day |
| _gat_wikiSampledProd | Analytics | fandom.com | Under a day |
| _gat_wikiUnsampledProd | Analytics | fandom.com | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | fandom.com | 1 day |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | fandom.com | 13 months |
| fanid_expiry | Unclassified | www.fandom.com | 1 day |
| Geo | Unclassified | fandom.com | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | nocookie.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | fandom.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | www.fandom.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | services.fandom.com | Under a day |
| cf_clearance | Functional | www.fandom.com | 12 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | fandom.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 6 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.