What does goodreads.com track?
Before any consent, goodreads.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
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 www.goodreads.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Amazon Advertising4 requestsAdvertising
m.media-amazon.com, fls-na.amazon.com, unagi.amazon.com
- X (Twitter)3 requestsSocial media
platform.twitter.com, syndication.twitter.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- gr-assets.com85 requestsUnclassified
s.gr-assets.com, i.gr-assets.com, images.gr-assets.com
- Apple1 requestFunctional
appleid.cdn-apple.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| locale | Advertising | www.goodreads.com | Session |
| _session_id2 | Unclassified | www.goodreads.com | Under a day |
| ccsid | Unclassified | www.goodreads.com | 13 months |
| logged_out_browsing_page_count | Unclassified | www.goodreads.com | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
The page also wrote 2 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.