What does irishtimes.com track?
Before any consent, irishtimes.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 0 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 www.irishtimes.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 20
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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
6 of the 14 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Permutive1 requestAdvertising
fce2b75e-f11a-48ad-a60f-7e004eb1d340.edge.permutive.app
- Cloudflare Web Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com, cloudflareinsights.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- arc-cdn.net16 requestsUnclassified
irishtimes-config-prod.api.arc-cdn.net
- foreca.net6 requestsUnclassified
lw.foreca.net
- recruitireland.com4 requestsUnclassified
widget.recruitireland.com, www.recruitireland.com
- xtremepush.com2 requestsUnclassified
api.xtremepush.com
- webpu.sh1 requestUnclassified
prod.webpu.sh
- e-pages.dk1 requestUnclassified
www.e-pages.dk
- OneTrust15 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Queryly2 requestsFunctional
www.queryly.com
- Sophi (Globe and Mail)1 requestFunctional
cdn.sophi.io
- Arc XP19 requestsContent delivery
powa-ingest-prod-us-east-1.video-player.arcpublishing.com, irishtimes.video-player.arcpublishing.com, cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com, static.themebuilder.aws.arc.pub
- unpkg4 requestsContent delivery
unpkg.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| blaize_session | Unclassified | www.irishtimes.com | 5 months |
| blaize_tracking_id | Unclassified | www.irishtimes.com | 13 months |
| AWSALB | Functional | www.irishtimes.com | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | www.irishtimes.com | 7 days |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | irishtimes.com | 6 months |
The page also wrote 4 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.