What does hotwire.com track?
Before any consent, hotwire.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 15 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 www.hotwire.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 15
- Third-party hosts
- 20
- Cookies in total
- 48
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
12 of the 17 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Adobe4 requestsAnalytics
assets.adobedtm.com, dpm.demdex.net
- Datadog1 requestAnalytics
www.datadoghq-browser-agent.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- hotwirestatic.com12 requestsUnclassified
ak-secure.hotwirestatic.com
- techlab-cdn.com4 requestsUnclassified
p11.techlab-cdn.com
- uciservice.com2 requestsUnclassified
www.uciservice.com
- travel-assets.com2 requestsUnclassified
a.travel-assets.com
- homeaway.com1 requestUnclassified
csvcus.homeaway.com
- glassboxcdn.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.glassboxcdn.com
- trvl-px.com1 requestUnclassified
www.trvl-px.com
- hotels.com1 requestUnclassified
www.hotels.com
- expedia.com1 requestUnclassified
www.expedia.com
- travelocity.com1 requestUnclassified
www.travelocity.com
- orbitz.com1 requestUnclassified
www.orbitz.com
- cheaptickets.com1 requestUnclassified
www.cheaptickets.com
- OneTrust12 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net
- Amazon Web Services1 requestContent delivery
d22xmn10vbouk4.cloudfront.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was AMCV_C00802BE5330A8350A490D4C%40AdobeOrg, from Adobe, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMCV_C00802BE5330A8350A490D4C%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | hotwire.com | 13 months |
| AMCVS_C00802BE5330A8350A490D4C%40AdobeOrg | Advertising | hotwire.com | Session |
| demdex | Advertising | demdex.net (third party) | 6 months |
| MC1 | Advertising | trvl-px.com (third party) | 13 months |
| MC1 | Advertising | expedia.com (third party) | 13 months |
| MC1 | Advertising | travelocity.com (third party) | 13 months |
| MC1 | Advertising | orbitz.com (third party) | 13 months |
| MC1 | Advertising | cheaptickets.com (third party) | 13 months |
| s_ecid | Advertising | hotwire.com | 13 months |
| _dd_s | Analytics | www.hotwire.com | Under a day |
| gpv_pn | Analytics | hotwire.com | Under a day |
| s_cc | Analytics | hotwire.com | Session |
| s_invisit | Analytics | hotwire.com | Under a day |
| s_visit | Analytics | hotwire.com | Under a day |
| s_vnum | Analytics | hotwire.com | 30 days |
| _cls_s | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | Session |
| _cls_v | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | 13 months |
| AKA_TRAFFIC_ROUTE | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | Under a day |
| AKA_TRAFFIC_ROUTE | Unclassified | me.hotwire.com | Under a day |
| akacd_gcs_prod_phased_release | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | Session |
| akacd_hfe_prod_phased_release | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | Session |
| DUAID | Unclassified | trvl-px.com (third party) | 13 months |
| DUAID | Unclassified | expedia.com (third party) | 13 months |
| DUAID | Unclassified | travelocity.com (third party) | 13 months |
| DUAID | Unclassified | orbitz.com (third party) | 13 months |
| DUAID | Unclassified | cheaptickets.com (third party) | 13 months |
| gpv_v43 | Unclassified | hotwire.com | Under a day |
| HMS | Unclassified | trvl-px.com (third party) | Under a day |
| HMS | Unclassified | expedia.com (third party) | Under a day |
| HMS | Unclassified | travelocity.com (third party) | Under a day |
| HMS | Unclassified | orbitz.com (third party) | Under a day |
| HMS | Unclassified | cheaptickets.com (third party) | Under a day |
| hsr_stack | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | Under a day |
| hwcl | Unclassified | hotwire.com | 13 months |
| hwesgl | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | Session |
| PIM-SESSION-ID | Unclassified | hotwire.com | Session |
| s_DaysSinceLastVisit | Unclassified | hotwire.com | 13 months |
| s_DaysSinceLastVisit_s | Unclassified | hotwire.com | Under a day |
| s_getNewRepeat | Unclassified | hotwire.com | 30 days |
| SaneID | Unclassified | hotwire.com | 13 months |
| uhp_ssr | Unclassified | www.hotwire.com | 1 day |
| _abck | Functional | hotwire.com | 12 months |
| AWSALBTG | Functional | api.hotwire.com | 7 days |
| AWSALBTGCORS | Functional | api.hotwire.com | 7 days |
| JSESSIONID | Functional | www.hotwire.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | hotwire.com | 12 months |
| RT | Functional | www.hotwire.com | 7 days |
| bm_sz | Necessary | hotwire.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 11 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
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- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
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- Consent management platforms explained
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