What does space.com track?
Before any consent, space.com loaded 6 tracking companies and set 3 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 83% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.space.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 6
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 33
- Cookies in total
- 12
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 6 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
4 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
www3.doubleclick.net
- Yahoo1 requestAdvertising
ads.servebom.com
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Dotmetrics4 requestsAnalytics
uk-script.dotmetrics.net, rm-script.dotmetrics.net
- Marfeel3 requestsAnalytics
sdk.mrf.io, marfeelexperimentsexperienceengine.mrf.io
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)3 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- html-load.com3 requestsUnclassified
html-load.com, stg.html-load.com, 0.stg.html-load.com
- newsroom.bi3 requestsUnclassified
events.newsroom.bi
- Sourcepoint12 requestsConsent banner
cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- Google16 requestsFunctional
www.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, news.google.com
- Viafoura5 requestsFunctional
tyrion.viafoura.co, cdn.viafoura.net, notifications.viafoura.co
- Future plc42 requestsContent delivery
cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net, vanilla.futurecdn.net, search-api.fie.futurecdn.net, freyr.futurecdn.net
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| u | Advertising | servebom.com (third party) | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | space.com | 13 months |
| _ga_NHWGPTEENX | Analytics | space.com | 13 months |
| _scor_uid | Unclassified | space.com | 13 months |
| Flexi_Active_Campaigns | Unclassified | www.space.com | 12 months |
| FTR_Cache_Status | Unclassified | www.space.com | Session |
| FTR_Country_Code | Unclassified | www.space.com | Session |
| FTR_Vanilla_Session_ID | Unclassified | space.com | Session |
| FTR_Vanilla_User_Is_Active | Unclassified | space.com | Under a day |
| h_id | Unclassified | www.space.com | 1 day |
| consentUUID | Functional | space.com | 12 months |
| usprivacy | Functional | www.space.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 11 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.