What does indown.io track?
Before any consent, indown.io loaded 3 tracking companies and set 5 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading indown.io/en4 once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 9
- Cookies in total
- 9
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 4 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com, www.google-analytics.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google14 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com, lh3.googleusercontent.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | indown.io | 13 months |
| _ga_DGBNK67EMB | Analytics | indown.io | 13 months |
| _gat_gtag_UA_235385955_1 | Analytics | indown.io | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | indown.io | 1 day |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | indown.io | 13 months |
| __cf_ob | Unclassified | indown.io | Session |
| indown-session | Unclassified | indown.io | Under a day |
| cf_clearance | Functional | indown.io | 12 months |
| XSRF-TOKEN | Necessary | indown.io | Under a day |
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.