What does heise.de track?
heise.de loaded no advertising or analytics trackers before consent.
That's right in line with other .de sites we scanned: the typical one among 60 sites also loaded 0 tracking companies.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.heise.de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 0
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 5
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
None.
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- cloudimg.io17 requestsUnclassified
heise.cloudimg.io
- atmosvere.eu3 requestsUnclassified
api.atmosvere.eu, sdk.atmosvere.eu
- mateti.net2 requestsUnclassified
cdn.mateti.net, 688012155290337.mateti.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _sp_su | Unclassified | heise.de | 12 months |
| trusted_id | Unclassified | www.heise.de | 12 months |
| wt_mcp_sid | Unclassified | heise.de | Under a day |
| wt_nv | Unclassified | heise.de | 6 months |
| wt_nv_s | Unclassified | heise.de | Session |
| wt_rla | Unclassified | heise.de | Session |
| wteid_688012155290337 | Unclassified | heise.de | 6 months |
| wtsid_688012155290337 | Unclassified | heise.de | Session |
The page also wrote 11 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.