What does weather.com track?
Before any consent, weather.com loaded 4 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading weather.com/?Goto=Redirected once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 5
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
6 of the 12 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net
- Amazon Advertising2 requestsAdvertising
config.aps.amazon-adsystem.com, client.aps.amazon-adsystem.com
- Magnite1 requestAdvertising
micro.rubiconproject.com
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- stay22.com5 requestsUnclassified
www.stay22.com, scripts.stay22.com
- w-x.co2 requestsUnclassified
s.w-x.co
- ay.delivery2 requestsUnclassified
hq2zc2zefnwmg3wcm.ay.delivery
- p-n.io1 requestUnclassified
cdn.p-n.io
- optable.co1 requestUnclassified
weather-channel.solutions.cdn.optable.co
- bagave.com1 requestUnclassified
bagave.com
- Sourcepoint11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- Google2 requestsFunctional
accounts.google.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _sp_su | Unclassified | weather.com | 12 months |
| ci | Unclassified | weather.com | Session |
| wxu-metrics-session | Unclassified | weather.com | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | stay22.com (third party) | Under a day |
| usprivacy | Functional | weather.com | 12 months |
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.