What does penguinrandomhouse.com track?
Before any consent, penguinrandomhouse.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.penguinrandomhouse.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 6
- Cookies in total
- 14
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 3 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Tealium6 requestsAnalytics
tags.tiqcdn.com, datacloud.tealiumiq.com, visitor-service-eu-central-1.tealiumiq.com
- Pingdom2 requestsAnalytics
rum-static.pingdom.net, rum-collector-2.pingdom.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google1 requestFunctional
ajax.googleapis.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was TAPID, from Tealium, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| TAPID | Analytics | tealiumiq.com (third party) | 12 months |
| is_bot | Unclassified | www.penguinrandomhouse.com | 7 days |
| timetorise | Unclassified | www.penguinrandomhouse.com | Session |
| PHPSESSID | Functional | www.penguinrandomhouse.com | Session |
| utag_main__pn | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | Under a day |
| utag_main__se | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | Under a day |
| utag_main__sn | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | 12 months |
| utag_main__ss | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | Under a day |
| utag_main__st | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | Under a day |
| utag_main_dc_event | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | Under a day |
| utag_main_dc_region | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | Under a day |
| utag_main_dc_visit | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | 12 months |
| utag_main_ses_id | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | Under a day |
| utag_main_v_id | Functional | penguinrandomhouse.com | 12 months |
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.