What does wowhead.com track?
Before any consent, wowhead.com loaded 7 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 86% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.wowhead.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 7
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 28
- Cookies in total
- 3
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 7 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
8 of the 21 companies it contacted before consent were unclassified.
- Ad Lightning3 requestsAdvertising
tagan.adlightning.com
- Google Ads3 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net
- Aditude3 requestsAdvertising
raven-edge.aditude.io, edge.aditude.io, raven-static.aditude.io
- Blockthrough3 requestsAdvertising
btloader.com, cdn.btloader.com
- Adobe2 requestsAnalytics
use.typekit.net, p.typekit.net
- Datadog1 requestAnalytics
www.datadoghq-browser-agent.com
- Google Analytics1 requestAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- zamimg.com58 requestsUnclassified
wow.zamimg.com
- htlbid.com2 requestsUnclassified
htlbid.com
- prebid.cloud2 requestsUnclassified
geo-location.prebid.cloud
- ad-delivery.net2 requestsUnclassified
ad-delivery.net
- dotaoutpost.com1 requestUnclassified
cdn.dotaoutpost.com
- fanbyte.com1 requestUnclassified
zaf.api.fanbyte.com
- offshoregeology.com1 requestUnclassified
offshoregeology.com
- dns-finder.com1 requestUnclassified
ab.dns-finder.com
- OneTrust4 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- AWS WAF4 requestsFunctional
ad65c0e8b968.153bc72a.eu-central-1.token.awswaf.com, ad65c0e8b968.edge.sdk.awswaf.com
- Google1 requestFunctional
fundingchoicesmessages.google.com
- jsDelivr4 requestsContent delivery
cdn.jsdelivr.net
- Amazon Web Services2 requestsContent delivery
dn0qt3r0xannq.cloudfront.net
- Ziff Davis1 requestContent delivery
metrics.rapidedge.io
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| cw-test-00000000_htlbid-tude_0_100 | Unclassified | www.wowhead.com | 30 days |
| __cf_bm | Functional | aditude.io (third party) | Under a day |
| aws-waf-token | Necessary | wowhead.com | 4 days |
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.