What does wikihow.com track?
Before any consent, wikihow.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.wikihow.com/Main-Page once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 1
- Tracking cookies
- 4
- Third-party hosts
- 3
- Cookies in total
- 8
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 1 tracking company still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.google-analytics.com, www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| _ga | Analytics | wikihow.com | 13 months |
| _ga_YQL08635YN | Analytics | wikihow.com | 13 months |
| _gat | Analytics | wikihow.com | Under a day |
| _gid | Analytics | wikihow.com | 1 day |
| thumb_cta_test | Unclassified | www.wikihow.com | 30 days |
| vi | Unclassified | wikihow.com | Session |
| vr | Unclassified | wikihow.com | Session |
| whv | Unclassified | wikihow.com | 13 months |
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.