The Cookie Scanner

The GDPR-Scanner helps you finding embedded cookies, services, and scripts that may violate GDPR requirements on your Website. Use the Cookie Report to make your website compliant with GDPR by implementing the rules in your Cookie Banner & Manager.

Scan Your Website for GDPR Leaks

  • Go to our free GDPR scanner and enter your website URL or sitemap.xml.
  • Start a scan and Identify potential privacy risks and compliance issues.
  • Get a detailed report with all cookies, scripts, and embedded content.
  • Use the insights to and add rules to your website's privacy manager to fix found issues.

How Does Cookie Scanning Work?

  1. Our scanner uses a headless browser to simulate a real visitor.
  2. It analyzes cookies, scripts, and embedded content like iframes.
  3. You can use a custom sitemap.xml to focus on specific pages or create an account to get the max out of this tool. 

 

Read and understand the Cookie-Report

Important note: If you scan as a guest (not logged in), you will always see a generic report.
If you want to personalize the scan or classify unknown services, register an account on Coding-Freaks and create your website as a project. In the project, you can restructure services and personalize the detection mechanism to handle unknown services correctly.

Use our Scan-Management to get free weekly or monthly reports and track privacy changes on your website to stay compliant.

Scan Overview

  • Detected Services:
    The number of known services detected on your website, found in our Cookie Database. (Expect unknown services, listed as "Unknown" to be manually checked and added to Consent-Configuration`).

  • Cookies found:
    Number of cookies found on your website. (First and third-party cookies).

  • Total Thirdparty Requests:
    The total number of requests to thirdparty providers made by the scanner during the scan. (Includes all resources like images, scripts, pings etc.)
    unique and global count

  • Sites Scanned/Visited:
    Number of pages visited during the scan. (Crawled or provided by Sitemap.xml input on scan start).

 

 

Detail Cookie/Service Overview

  • Service Name:
    The name of the service used on your website. (e.g., Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, etc.)
    Use the Details button to see more information about the service loaded Requests and its cookies.

  • Unknown Services:
    Services not found in our Cookie Database are listed as "Unknown".
    You can classify these services by clicking on the "Unknown" button and adding them to your Consent-Configuration.

 

 

Customizing Scan Results and Classify unknown Providers

Use our Cookie-Admin Backend for Configuration and classification of cookies and services on your website.
You can add/classify them to your Consent-Configuration, the scanner respects your settings if scanned with your Account (Project-Administration).

Cookie Scanner Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I scan more than 10 pages?

To scan more than 10 pages, you need to create an account and get a free API key. This ensures we avoid misuse and bot traffic.

  1. Sign in or create an account.
  2. Use the Backend Scanner or the API Integration and access the "Advanced Options" to increase the scan limit.

How do I integrate the scanner into my website?

You don’t need to do that. The Scanner is an external crawler your page just needs to be accessible from the internet so we can scan it.
You only need to integrate the Consent Banner using our plugins or your own custom implementation in any framework.

What should I do with the final report?

  • Remove unnecessary services or cookies from your website or classify them and load them compliant.
  • Implement required cookies and services into your Cookie Banner for GDPR compliance.

Why is the report incomplete or not displayed?

If some tabs are missing or the report doesn’t load:

  • Check if you’re using Brave or an ad-blocker extension. Disable these for the scanning results page to avoid false positives and ensure proper display of the report.

Scanner issues and Scan errors

If the scanner returns an error and no results, there may be several reasons for this.
The most common cause is web firewalls, such as Cloudflare DDoS protection.
Our crawler cannot solve JavaScript challenges or CAPTCHAs, and therefore it is unable to crawl those websites.

Please add our crawler to your WAF firewall whitelist, or alternatively, provide the target pages directly via a sitemap.xml file so that crawling is not required.

User-Agent: Coding-Freaks CookieAuditBot/1.0

If the issue persists, please contact us so we can work together to find a solution.

Florian Eibisberger

Still have questions?

Can’t find the answer you’re looking for? Feel free to contact us.

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