What does wunderground.com track?
Before any consent, wunderground.com loaded 5 tracking companies and set 0 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 78% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.wunderground.com once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 5
- Tracking cookies
- 0
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 4
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 5 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 10 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Taboola6 requestsAdvertising
cdn.taboola.com, nr-events.taboola.com, c2.taboola.com
- Oracle Advertising1 requestAdvertising
z.moatads.com
- New Relic3 requestsAnalytics
bam.nr-data.net, js-agent.newrelic.com
- Scorecard Research (Comscore)2 requestsAnalytics
sb.scorecardresearch.com
- Amplitude2 requestsAnalytics
api.amplitude.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- weather.com7 requestsUnclassified
api.weather.com, weather.com
- w-x.co3 requestsUnclassified
s.w-x.co
- qovani.com1 requestUnclassified
static.qovani.com
- Sourcepoint12 requestsConsent banner
cdn.privacy-mgmt.com
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com
Cookies set before consent
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| akacd_wu-preview | Unclassified | www.wunderground.com | 13 months |
| ci | Unclassified | wunderground.com | Session |
| consentUUID | Functional | www.wunderground.com | 12 months |
| usprivacy | Functional | wunderground.com | 12 months |
The page also wrote 11 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.