What does fontawesome.com track?
Before any consent, fontawesome.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 2 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 fontawesome.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 16
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- helpscout.net6 requestsUnclassified
beacon-v2.helpscout.net
- fortawesome.com3 requestsUnclassified
use.fortawesome.com, img.fortawesome.com
- servedby-buysellads.com1 requestUnclassified
m.servedby-buysellads.com
- Google9 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Stripe6 requestsFunctional
js.stripe.com, m.stripe.network, m.stripe.com
- Bunny.net1 requestContent delivery
fonts.bunny.net
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
d3hb14vkzrxvla.cloudfront.net
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 | fontawesome.com | 13 months |
| _ga_BPMS41FJD2 | Analytics | fontawesome.com | 13 months |
| fa_cookie_settings | Unclassified | fontawesome.com | 12 months |
| fontawesome | Unclassified | fontawesome.com | Session |
| ph_phc_vqJhC8Gur3e5hySKKsNdlhHsHeDna2K1fxalCezay… | Unclassified | fontawesome.com | 12 months |
| __stripe_mid | Functional | fontawesome.com | 12 months |
| __stripe_sid | Functional | fontawesome.com | Under a day |
| m | Functional | m.stripe.com (third party) | 13 months |
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
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- 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.