What does neilpatel.com track?
Before any consent, neilpatel.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 0 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 neilpatel.com/de once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 2
Consent banner
The page loaded Cookie Script, 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 10 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Microsoft Clarity6 requestsAnalytics
u.clarity.ms, www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- mida.so13 requestsUnclassified
cdn.mida.so, api-us.mida.so
- Cookie Script2 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookie-script.com
- Trustpilot2 requestsFunctional
widget.trustpilot.com
- Fingerprint (FingerprintJS)1 requestFunctional
openfpcdn.io
- Chili Piper1 requestFunctional
npaccel.chilipiper.com
- jsDelivr4 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| cf_zaraz_client | Unclassified | neilpatel.com | 12 months |
| CookieScriptConsent | Functional | neilpatel.com | 12 months |
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
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- 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.