What does namecheap.com track?
Before any consent, namecheap.com 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.namecheap.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads4 requestsAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Crazy Egg4 requestsAnalytics
script.crazyegg.com
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam-cell.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | namecheap.com | 3 months |
| _ce.s | Analytics | namecheap.com | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | namecheap.com | 13 months |
| _ga_7DMJMG20P8 | Analytics | namecheap.com | 13 months |
| .c | Unclassified | www.namecheap.com | 12 months |
| SessionId | Unclassified | www.namecheap.com | Session |
| x-ab-hp-promos | Unclassified | www.namecheap.com | 30 days |
| x-gdpr-sessionid | Unclassified | namecheap.com | Session |
| x-sf-country | Unclassified | www.namecheap.com | 1 day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | namecheap.com | Under a day |
| __cflb | Functional | www.namecheap.com | 1 day |
| JSESSIONID | Functional | nr-data.net (third party) | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | namecheap.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.