What does joomla.org track?
Before any consent, joomla.org loaded 4 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.joomla.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 6 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com
- Pingdom2 requestsAnalytics
rum-static.pingdom.net, rum-collector-2.pingdom.net
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Report URI3 requestsFunctional
wwwjorg.report-uri.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.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 | joomla.org | 13 months |
| _ga_X283HVFSTN | Analytics | joomla.org | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-544070-3 | Analytics | joomla.org | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | joomla.org | 1 day |
| 312b0a5d22b922fb76560c8879ef7cd8 | Unclassified | www.joomla.org | Session |
The page also wrote 2 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.