What does theknot.com track?
Before any consent, theknot.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 2 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 75% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.theknot.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 2
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 11
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- xogrp.com16 requestsUnclassified
media-api.xogrp.com, geo-api.xogrp.com
- nuptic.com1 requestUnclassified
pro-tkww-unleash-edge-useast1.svc.nuptic.com
- captcha-delivery.com1 requestUnclassified
geo.captcha-delivery.com
- OneTrust13 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- DataDome1 requestFunctional
js.datadome.co
- Akamai2 requestsContent delivery
s.go-mpulse.net, c.go-mpulse.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was visitor_id, from Salesforce, lasting about 12 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| visitor_id | Advertising | theknot.com | 12 months |
| ajs_anonymous_id | Analytics | theknot.com | 12 months |
| abtestexperiment | Unclassified | theknot.com | 30 days |
| abtestexperiment_id | Unclassified | theknot.com | 30 days |
| abtestexperiment_reported_c3eb490c | Unclassified | theknot.com | 30 days |
| tkww_op | Unclassified | theknot.com | Session |
| visit_id | Unclassified | theknot.com | Under a day |
| AKA_A2 | Functional | theknot.com | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | theknot.com | 12 months |
| RT | Functional | www.theknot.com | 7 days |
| datadome | Necessary | theknot.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.