What does wattpad.com track?
Before any consent, wattpad.com loaded 3 tracking companies and set 7 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 58% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.wattpad.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 7
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 16
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, 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 analytics companies.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de, ampcid.google.de
- Google Analytics6 requestsAnalytics
region1.analytics.google.com, www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)4 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- clmbtech.com2 requestsUnclassified
static.clmbtech.com, ase.clmbtech.com
- wp-e.net1 requestUnclassified
a.wp-e.net
- OneTrust10 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- AWS WAF4 requestsFunctional
31bcb4af0667.edge.sdk.awswaf.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
accounts.google.com, ampcid.google.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | wattpad.com | 3 months |
| locale | Advertising | wattpad.com | 3 months |
| remix_host_header_100 | Advertising | wattpad.com | 6 months |
| _ga | Analytics | wattpad.com | 13 months |
| _ga_FNDTZ0MZDQ | Analytics | wattpad.com | 13 months |
| _gid | Analytics | wattpad.com | 1 day |
| AMP_TOKEN | Analytics | wattpad.com | Under a day |
| _col_uuid | Unclassified | clmbtech.com (third party) | 13 months |
| feat-fedcm-rollout | Unclassified | wattpad.com | 14 days |
| sn__time | Unclassified | wattpad.com | Under a day |
| te_session_id | Unclassified | wattpad.com | Session |
| wp_id | Unclassified | wattpad.com | 13 months |
| wp-web-page | Unclassified | wattpad.com | 12 months |
| lang | Functional | wattpad.com | 3 months |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | wattpad.com | 13 months |
| aws-waf-token | Necessary | www.wattpad.com | 4 days |
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.