What does toutiao.com track?
Before any consent, toutiao.com loaded 1 tracking company and set 4 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.toutiao.com/?wid=1790937207261 once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 23
- Cookies in total
- 14
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
5 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- toutiaostatic.com22 requestsUnclassified
lf-dw.toutiaostatic.com
- toutiaoimg.com14 requestsUnclassified
p3-sign.toutiaoimg.com
- bytednsdoc.com6 requestsUnclassified
lf9-static.bytednsdoc.com, lf3-static.bytednsdoc.com
- snssdk.com2 requestsUnclassified
xxbg.snssdk.com
- douyinstatic.com1 requestUnclassified
sf3-cdn-tos.douyinstatic.com
- ByteDance38 requestsContent delivery
mcs.zijieapi.com, lf3-short.ibytedapm.com, mon.zijieapi.com, lf3-beecdn.bytetos.com
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ttwid | Advertising | bytedance.com (third party) | 12 months |
| ttwid | Advertising | toutiao.com | 12 months |
| _ga | Analytics | toutiao.com | 13 months |
| _ga_QEHZPBE5HH | Analytics | toutiao.com | 13 months |
| gfkadpd | Unclassified | www.toutiao.com | 3 days |
| local_city_cache | Unclassified | www.toutiao.com | 30 days |
| tt_scid | Unclassified | xxbg.snssdk.com (third party) | 7 days |
| tt_scid | Unclassified | www.toutiao.com | 12 months |
| tt_webid | Unclassified | toutiao.com | 3 months |
| ttcid | Unclassified | www.toutiao.com | 12 months |
| ttcid | Unclassified | xxbg.snssdk.com (third party) | 7 days |
| x-web-secsdk-uid | Unclassified | www.toutiao.com | Session |
| s_v_web_id | Functional | www.toutiao.com | 2 months |
| csrftoken | Necessary | www.toutiao.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 10 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.