What does worldometers.info track?
Before any consent, worldometers.info loaded 4 tracking companies and set 3 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 www.worldometers.info once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 3
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
The page loaded Google Funding Choices, 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
2 of the 8 companies it contacted before consent were advertising companies.
- Google Ads7 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, pagead2.googlesyndication.com, www.google.de, stats.g.doubleclick.net
- Freestar7 requestsAdvertising
a.pub.network, d.pub.network, c.pub.network
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
region1.analytics.google.com, www.googletagmanager.com
- Cloudflare Web Analytics1 requestAnalytics
static.cloudflareinsights.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- realtimestatistics.net2 requestsUnclassified
www.realtimestatistics.net
- cdn-vitals.com1 requestUnclassified
edge.cdn-vitals.com
- Google12 requestsFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com, fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com, lh3.googleusercontent.com
- jQuery CDN1 requestContent delivery
code.jquery.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 | worldometers.info | 13 months |
| _ga_ZDP3BFSX60 | Analytics | worldometers.info | 13 months |
| FCCDCF | Analytics | worldometers.info | 13 months |
| cf_clearance | Functional | worldometers.info | 12 months |
Understanding this page
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- 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.