What does metro.co.uk track?
Before any consent, metro.co.uk loaded 2 tracking companies and set 2 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 metro.co.uk once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 19
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
The page loaded IAB TCF (unidentified platform), 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
5 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
s0.2mdn.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
region1.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- dailymail.com46 requestsUnclassified
i.dailymail.com
- dailymail.co.uk17 requestsUnclassified
i.dailymail.co.uk, www.dailymail.co.uk, mads.dailymail.co.uk
- anm.co.uk9 requestsUnclassified
dmg-libs.anm.co.uk, hulkprod.anm.co.uk
- dmgmediaprivacy.co.uk6 requestsUnclassified
cmp.dmgmediaprivacy.co.uk
- webcontentassessor.com1 requestUnclassified
scripts.webcontentassessor.com
- Google14 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, www.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com, imasdk.googleapis.com
- WordPress.com2 requestsFunctional
stats.wp.com, pixel.wp.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 | metro.co.uk | 13 months |
| _ga_MYFQ9GLWWV | Analytics | metro.co.uk | 13 months |
The page also wrote 8 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.