What does independent.co.uk track?
Before any consent, independent.co.uk loaded 10 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 92% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.independent.co.uk once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 10
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 25
- Cookies in total
- 18
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 10 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 19 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- AdRecover3 requestsAdvertising
delivery.adrecover.com
- DoubleVerify3 requestsAdvertising
pub.doubleverify.com
- Amazon Advertising1 requestAdvertising
aax.amazon-adsystem.com
- Taboola1 requestAdvertising
cdn.taboola.com
- Permutive1 requestAdvertising
5d79bce7-5d2b-427e-a6c4-b89b6c7bf048.edge.permutive.app
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
- Dotmetrics4 requestsAnalytics
uk-script.dotmetrics.net, rm-script.dotmetrics.net
- Chartbeat4 requestsAnalytics
static.chartbeat.com, mab.chartbeat.com, ping.chartbeat.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- the-independent.com12 requestsUnclassified
assets.the-independent.com
- spellknight.com3 requestsUnclassified
spellknight.com
- monetizationos.com1 requestUnclassified
assets.monetizationos.com
- ml314.com1 requestUnclassified
vi.ml314.com
- npttech.com1 requestUnclassified
www.npttech.com
- ocmthood.com1 requestUnclassified
sdk.ocmthood.com
- Sourcepoint3 requestsConsent banner
geo.privacymanager.io, ats-wrapper.privacymanager.io
- Google4 requestsFunctional
storage.googleapis.com
- jQuery CDN1 requestContent delivery
code.jquery.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _cb, from Chartbeat, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _cb | Analytics | independent.co.uk | 13 months |
| _cb_svref | Analytics | independent.co.uk | Under a day |
| _ce.s | Analytics | independent.co.uk | 12 months |
| _chartbeat2 | Analytics | independent.co.uk | 13 months |
| _awl | Unclassified | independent.co.uk | 13 months |
| _pc_subscriber_origin | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | Session |
| _sp_su | Unclassified | independent.co.uk | 12 months |
| anon-session-id | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | Session |
| esi-permutive-id | Unclassified | independent.co.uk | Session |
| esi-permutive-id | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | Session |
| esi-uuid | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | 12 months |
| feat__article_complete_tracking_commercial | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | 2 months |
| feat__piano_use_vanity_domain | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | 2 months |
| is_mobile_or_tablet | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | 12 months |
| Locale | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | Session |
| subscriber_origin | Unclassified | www.independent.co.uk | Session |
| __adblocker | Functional | www.independent.co.uk | Under a day |
| gdpr | Functional | www.independent.co.uk | Session |
The page also wrote 10 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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