What does trustindex.io track?
Before any consent, trustindex.io loaded 3 tracking companies and set 1 advertising or analytics cookie.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.trustindex.io once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 1
- Third-party hosts
- 14
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
The page loaded CookieYes, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 3 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were functional companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- CookieYes11 requestsConsent banner
cdn-cookieyes.com, log.cookieyes.com, directory.cookieyes.com
- Zoho17 requestsFunctional
static.zohocdn.com, desk.zoho.eu
- Google7 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
- Cloudflare5 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- jsDelivr2 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _fbp, lasting about 3 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | trustindex.io | 3 months |
| crmcsr | Unclassified | desk.zoho.eu (third party) | Session |
| cookieyes-consent | Functional | www.trustindex.io | 12 months |
The page also wrote 2 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.