What does mariadb.org track?
Before any consent, mariadb.org loaded 2 tracking companies and set 4 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading mariadb.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 10
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
The page loaded Usercentrics, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
1 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Usercentrics17 requestsConsent banner
web.cmp.usercentrics.eu, v1.api.service.cmp.usercentrics.eu, uct.service.usercentrics.eu, app.usercentrics.eu
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 30 days.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | mariadb.org | 30 days |
| _ga_VX5GDKMVHD | Analytics | mariadb.org | 30 days |
| _gat | Analytics | mariadb.org | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | mariadb.org | 1 day |
The page also wrote 3 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.