What does who.int track?
Before any consent, who.int loaded 3 tracking companies and set 5 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.who.int once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 3
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 19
- Cookies in total
- 10
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads1 requestAdvertising
ad.doubleclick.net
- Google Analytics5 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, www.google-analytics.com, region1.google-analytics.com
- Microsoft Clarity3 requestsAnalytics
www.clarity.ms, scripts.clarity.ms, h.clarity.ms
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- telerik.com4 requestsUnclassified
kendo.cdn.telerik.com
- monsido.com4 requestsUnclassified
heatmaps.monsido.com, app-script.monsido.com, tracking.monsido.com
- Fundraise Up16 requestsFunctional
static.fundraiseup.com, cdn.fundraiseup.com, fndrsp.net
- Google8 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, www.google.com
- Font Awesome4 requestsContent delivery
use.fontawesome.com
- Cloudflare3 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.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 | who.int | 3 months |
| _ga | Analytics | who.int | 13 months |
| _ga_WKG4M0MSB8 | Analytics | who.int | 13 months |
| _gat_UA-30222631-2 | Analytics | who.int | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | who.int | 1 day |
| fundraiseup_cid | Unclassified | who.int | 13 months |
| fundraiseup_func | Unclassified | who.int | Session |
| fundraiseup_stat | Unclassified | who.int | Session |
| sf-prs-lu | Unclassified | www.who.int | Session |
| sf-prs-ss | Unclassified | www.who.int | Session |
The page also wrote 1 key 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.