What does nationalgeographic.com track?
Before any consent, nationalgeographic.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
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 www.nationalgeographic.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 13
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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
7 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
www.googletagservices.com
- Datadog1 requestAnalytics
www.datadoghq-browser-agent.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- go.com56 requestsUnclassified
log.go.com, tredir.go.com
- natgeofe.com47 requestsUnclassified
i.natgeofe.com
- bamgrid.com10 requestsUnclassified
static-assets.bamgrid.com, pcs.bamgrid.com, hiveplayer-static.bamgrid.com, client-sdk-configs.bamgrid.com
- disney.com9 requestsUnclassified
login.disney.com
- disneyaccount.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.disneyaccount.com
- webcontentassessor.com1 requestUnclassified
scripts.webcontentassessor.com
- dtcidev.co1 requestUnclassified
sinfo.dtcidev.co
- OneTrust13 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.google.com
- Disney5 requestsContent delivery
dcf.espn.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _dd_s, from Datadog, lasting about under a day.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _dd_s | Analytics | www.nationalgeographic.com | Under a day |
| _dcf | Unclassified | www.nationalgeographic.com | Session |
| anonymous_swid | Unclassified | nationalgeographic.com | 12 months |
| loggedin | Unclassified | www.nationalgeographic.com | 12 months |
| s_ensCDS | Unclassified | www.nationalgeographic.com | Session |
| s_ensNonIab | Unclassified | www.nationalgeographic.com | Session |
| s_ensNR | Unclassified | nationalgeographic.com | 30 days |
| s_ensRegion | Unclassified | www.nationalgeographic.com | Session |
| userab_1 | Unclassified | www.nationalgeographic.com | Under a day |
| country | Functional | www.nationalgeographic.com | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | nationalgeographic.com | 12 months |
| region | Functional | www.nationalgeographic.com | 7 days |
| SWID | Functional | nationalgeographic.com | 13 months |
The page also wrote 6 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.