What does scmp.com track?
Before any consent, scmp.com loaded 17 tracking companies and set 35 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 97% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.scmp.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 17
- Tracking cookies
- 35
- Third-party hosts
- 58
- Cookies in total
- 59
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 17 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
7 of the 23 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads11 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com, www.google.de, ad.doubleclick.net
- StackAdapt5 requestsAdvertising
tags.srv.stackadapt.com
- RTB House4 requestsAdvertising
asia.creativecdn.com, tags.creativecdn.com, sin46.creativecdn.com
- Amazon Advertising4 requestsAdvertising
c.amazon-adsystem.com, config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, prod.us-east-1.cxm-bcn.publisher-services.amazon.dev
- Xandr (Microsoft)2 requestsAdvertising
ib.adnxs.com
- Lotame1 requestAdvertising
tags.crwdcntrl.net
- Epsilon (Conversant)1 requestAdvertising
secure.cdn.fastclick.net
- LinkedIn6 requestsSocial media
px.ads.linkedin.com, snap.licdn.com
- Meta6 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- YouTube2 requestsSocial media
www.youtube.com
- Reddit2 requestsSocial media
www.redditstatic.com, alb.reddit.com
- Google Analytics11 requestsAnalytics
region1.analytics.google.com, www.googletagmanager.com
- Cxense (Piano)5 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com, api.cxense.com, id.cxense.com, comcluster.cxense.com
- Optimizely4 requestsAnalytics
logx.optimizely.com, cdn.optimizely.com, a27224800026.cdn.optimizely.com
- Hotjar2 requestsAnalytics
static.hotjar.com, script.hotjar.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
- Adobe1 requestAnalytics
p.typekit.net
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- i-scmp.com149 requestsUnclassified
assets-v2.i-scmp.com, cdn.i-scmp.com, mirror.i-scmp.com, assets.i-scmp.com
- npttech.com1 requestUnclassified
www.npttech.com
- Google43 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, www.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Piano3 requestsFunctional
cdn.tinypass.com, c2.piano.io, buy.tinypass.com
- Sentry3 requestsFunctional
o108792.ingest.us.sentry.io
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
2c-1138a2e087744ef69e662051fe044c44.ecs.us-west-1.on.aws
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| __Secure-ROLLOUT_TOKEN | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| _fbp | Advertising | scmp.com | 3 months |
| _gcl_au | Advertising | scmp.com | 3 months |
| _pcus | Advertising | scmp.com | 13 months |
| _rdt_uuid | Advertising | scmp.com | 3 months |
| anj | Advertising | adnxs.com (third party) | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| c | Advertising | creativecdn.com (third party) | 12 months |
| cX_G | Advertising | scmp.com | 13 months |
| g | Advertising | creativecdn.com (third party) | 12 months |
| gckp | Advertising | cxense.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Advertising | scmp.com | 6 months |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id | Advertising | www.scmp.com | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v2 | Advertising | www.scmp.com | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v3 | Advertising | www.scmp.com | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | tags.srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | srv.stackadapt.com (third party) | 12 months |
| sa-user-id-v4 | Advertising | www.scmp.com | 12 months |
| uuid2 | Advertising | adnxs.com (third party) | 3 months |
| VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| VISITOR_PRIVACY_METADATA | Advertising | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| XANDR_PANID | Advertising | adnxs.com (third party) | 3 months |
| __pat | Analytics | scmp.com | 30 days |
| __pvi | Analytics | scmp.com | 1 day |
| _ga | Analytics | scmp.com | 13 months |
| _ga_VD9LCVW2ZV | Analytics | scmp.com | 13 months |
| _oeu1790936870132r0.9794832717513368$… | Analytics | a27224800026.cdn.optimizely.com (third party) | 6 months |
| cX_P | Analytics | scmp.com | 13 months |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | scmp.com | 13 months |
| optimizelySession | Analytics | scmp.com | 6 months |
| __rtbh.lid | Unclassified | www.scmp.com | 12 months |
| _mirror_test_click | Unclassified | scmp.com | Under a day |
| _mirror_tests | Unclassified | scmp.com | Under a day |
| _vi | Unclassified | scmp.com | 13 months |
| scmp_subscriber | Unclassified | scmp.com | 1 day |
| session_uuid | Unclassified | www.scmp.com | Under a day |
| __adblocker | Functional | www.scmp.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | tinypass.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | scmp.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | piano.io (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| __pnahc | Functional | www.scmp.com | 2 months |
| __Secure-YNID | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | 6 months |
| __tbc | Functional | scmp.com | 2 months |
| _hjSession_3648823 | Functional | scmp.com | Under a day |
| _hjSessionUser_3648823 | Functional | scmp.com | 12 months |
| _pcid | Functional | scmp.com | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | scmp.com | 13 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | scmp.com | 12 months |
| g_state | Functional | www.scmp.com | 6 months |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| ts | Functional | creativecdn.com (third party) | 12 months |
| xbc | Functional | scmp.com | 2 months |
| YSC | Functional | youtube.com (third party) | Session |
The page also wrote 33 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
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