What does wordfence.com track?
Before any consent, wordfence.com loaded 2 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.wordfence.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
No known consent management platform was detected on the page.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- HubSpot6 requestsAnalytics
forms.hsforms.com, forms-na1.hsforms.com, js.hsforms.net
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- Google9 requestsFunctional
www.google.com, fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com
- AWS WAF3 requestsFunctional
124e5c20ff6f.c864d3c5.eu-central-1.token.awswaf.com
- Bootstrap CDN1 requestContent delivery
maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsforms.net (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | hsforms.com (third party) | Under a day |
| aws-waf-token | Necessary | www.wordfence.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.