What does investing.com track?
Before any consent, investing.com loaded 6 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 83% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.investing.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 16
- Cookies in total
- 23
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 6 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Amazon Advertising2 requestsAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com
- Meta1 requestSocial media
connect.facebook.net
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
region1.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com
- Hotjar2 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- invmed.co3 requestsUnclassified
monetization.prod.invmed.co
- pbxai.com2 requestsUnclassified
floor.pbxai.com, cdn.pbxai.com
- OneTrust10 requestsConsent banner
cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
accounts.google.com
- Apple1 requestFunctional
appleid.cdn-apple.com
- jsDelivr1 requestContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _hjHasCachedUserAttributes | Analytics | www.investing.com | Session |
| __eventn_id | Unclassified | investing.com | 13 months |
| _dd_s_v2 | Unclassified | www.investing.com | 12 months |
| _imntz_error | Unclassified | www.investing.com | 1 day |
| adBlockerNewUserDomains | Unclassified | investing.com | 12 months |
| fs_marker | Unclassified | investing.com | Under a day |
| gcc | Unclassified | investing.com | Under a day |
| gsc | Unclassified | investing.com | Under a day |
| inudid | Unclassified | investing.com | 12 months |
| invab | Unclassified | investing.com | 12 months |
| last_smd | Unclassified | investing.com | 12 months |
| ses_num | Unclassified | investing.com | 12 months |
| smd | Unclassified | investing.com | Under a day |
| udid | Unclassified | investing.com | 12 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | cookiepro.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | nbs.investing.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | promos.investing.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | investing.com | Under a day |
| __cflb | Functional | www.investing.com | 1 day |
| _hjSession_174945 | Functional | investing.com | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_174945 | Functional | investing.com | 12 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | investing.com | 12 months |
| g_state | Functional | www.investing.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 7 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.