What does zeit.de track?
Before any consent, zeit.de loaded 2 tracking companies and set 6 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's fewer tracking companies than most sites we scanned: 56% of the 2,450 sites we checked loaded more. Among the 60 other .de sites we scanned, the typical one loaded 0 tracking companies — zeit.de loaded more.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.zeit.de/index once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 2
- Tracking cookies
- 6
- Third-party hosts
- 11
- Cookies in total
- 21
Consent banner
The page loaded Sourcepoint, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 2 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
2 of the 5 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Cxense (Piano)4 requestsAnalytics
cdn.cxense.com, id.cxense.com, comcluster.cxense.com
- Google Analytics2 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- storifyme.xyz2 requestsUnclassified
cdn.storifyme.xyz, storifyme.xyz
- storifyme.com1 requestUnclassified
c77.cdn.storifyme.com
- Piano4 requestsFunctional
experience-eu.piano.io, code.piano.io, c2-eu.piano.io, buy-eu.piano.io
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _pcus, from Piano, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _pcus | Advertising | zeit.de | 13 months |
| cX_G | Advertising | zeit.de | 13 months |
| gckp | Advertising | cxense.com (third party) | 12 months |
| __pat | Analytics | zeit.de | 30 days |
| __pvi | Analytics | zeit.de | 1 day |
| cX_P | Analytics | zeit.de | 13 months |
| _centinel | Unclassified | www.zeit.de | Session |
| _sp_enable_dfp_personalized_ads | Unclassified | zeit.de | 3 months |
| _sp_su | Unclassified | zeit.de | 12 months |
| _sp_v1_data | Unclassified | www.zeit.de | 30 days |
| _sp_v1_p | Unclassified | www.zeit.de | 30 days |
| _sp_v1_ss | Unclassified | www.zeit.de | 30 days |
| _zsp_ | Unclassified | zeit.de | 12 months |
| _zsp_id.34f2 | Unclassified | zeit.de | 13 months |
| _zsp_ses.34f2 | Unclassified | zeit.de | Under a day |
| creid | Unclassified | zeit.de | 13 months |
| __cf_bm | Functional | piano.io (third party) | Under a day |
| __tbc | Functional | zeit.de | 13 months |
| _pcid | Functional | zeit.de | 13 months |
| _pctx | Functional | zeit.de | 13 months |
| xbc | Functional | zeit.de | 13 months |
The page also wrote 7 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.