What does gitbook.io track?
Before any consent, gitbook.io loaded 7 tracking companies and set 13 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.gitbook.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 13
- Third-party hosts
- 26
- Cookies in total
- 20
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 11 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, ad.doubleclick.net
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Reddit2 requestsSocial media
www.redditstatic.com, alb.reddit.com
- HubSpot4 requestsAnalytics
js.hs-scripts.com, js.hs-analytics.net, js.hs-banner.com, track.hubspot.com
- Microsoft Clarity4 requestsAnalytics
l.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Amplitude2 requestsAnalytics
cdn.amplitude.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- lfeeder.com2 requestsUnclassified
sc.lfeeder.com, tr.lfeeder.com
- distro.so1 requestUnclassified
app.distro.so
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com
- Framer58 requestsContent delivery
framerusercontent.com, events.framer.com, framer.com, app.framerstatic.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| __hssc | Advertising | gitbook.com | Under a day |
| __hssrc | Advertising | gitbook.com | Session |
| __hstc | Advertising | gitbook.com | 6 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | gitbook.com | 3 months |
| _lfa | Advertising | gitbook.com | 12 months |
| _rdt_uuid | Advertising | gitbook.com | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| hubspotutk | Advertising | gitbook.com | 6 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| _ga | Analytics | gitbook.com | 13 months |
| _ga_XDQWKTB16G | Analytics | gitbook.com | 13 months |
| AMP_fef1e872c9 | Analytics | gitbook.com | 12 months |
| AMP_MKTG_fef1e872c9 | Analytics | gitbook.com | 12 months |
| __session | Unclassified | gitbook.com | 13 months |
| _rdt_pn | Unclassified | gitbook.com | 3 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-banner.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hs-analytics.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hubspot.com (third party) | Under a day |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
The page also wrote 4 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.