What does starbucks.com track?
Before any consent, starbucks.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 8 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.starbucks.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 8
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
The page loaded TrustArc, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads5 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, ad.doubleclick.net
- Pinterest1 requestSocial media
ct.pinterest.com
- Google Analytics9 requestsAnalytics
region1.analytics.google.com, www.googletagmanager.com
- mParticle7 requestsAnalytics
jssdks.mparticle.com, jssdkcdns.mparticle.com, identity.mparticle.com
- Optimizely3 requestsAnalytics
cdn.optimizely.com, a6558036.cdn.optimizely.com, logx.optimizely.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- xg4ken.com1 requestUnclassified
resources.xg4ken.com
- TrustArc5 requestsConsent banner
consent.trustarc.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
www.google.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was optimizelyOptOut, from Optimizely, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | starbucks.com | 3 months |
| _pinterest_ct_ua | Advertising | ct.pinterest.com (third party) | 12 months |
| optimizelyEndUserId | Advertising | starbucks.com | 6 months |
| optimizelyOptOut | Advertising | starbucks.com | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | starbucks.com | 13 months |
| _ga_Q8JXK1T67J | Analytics | starbucks.com | 13 months |
| _ga_VMTHZW7WSM | Analytics | starbucks.com | 13 months |
| _oeu1790936969790r0.919769600833712$… | Analytics | a6558036.cdn.optimizely.com (third party) | 6 months |
| notice_behavior | Necessary | starbucks.com | Session |
| TAsessionID | Necessary | starbucks.com | Under a day |
The page also wrote 13 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.