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Cookie Scanner

Find Privacy Leaks on Your Website

Discover hidden privacy issues with our Cookie & Privacy Scanner. This tool helps you identify embedded cookies, services, and scripts that may violate GDPR requirements. Use the insights to make your website fully compliant with GDPR by implementing the rules in your Cookie Banner & Manager.

Start a free Cookie audit Report

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.

With just one click:

Free Cookie Scanner

  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.

Example inputs:

  • https://example.com/sitemap.xml
  • https://example.com

Advanced Options Available:​

Fine-tune the scan to meet your needs.

  • Max Pages:
    • Set the maximum number of pages to scan. Default is 10 increasing this require a free API key.
  • XPath for the Cookie Consent button:
    • Specify an XPath to locate the cookie consent button on your website. Only if you want to check with an accepted consent. Learn more about XPath syntax here.
  • ngrok - skip Browser Warning: Enable this option to bypass browser warnings when using ngrok for local development.

Below you can see a full-page screenshot of the report. We will briefly go through all the important points so that you can understand and implement privacy on your website.

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.

1. Scan Overview​

  • Banner Accepted/or not:
    Shows if the cookie banner was accepted or not provided by the Advanced Options (xpath).
    Remember, if you scan with consent, all third-party services/cookies will be found.
    If you want to perform a privacy check, you must scan without consent. Simply leave the field empty.

  • 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 Requests:
    The total number of requests made by the scanner to your website during the scan. (Includes all resources like images, scripts, etc.)

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

2. 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.

3. Network Overview​

  • Request:
    A visual representation of the Scan Overview including Requests/Cookies made by the scanner to your website.

Free Cookie Report

Customizing Scan Results and Classify unknown Providers​

Use our Cookie-Admin Backend to 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).

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. Reload the page and access the "Advanced Options" to increase the scan limit.

How do I integrate the scanner into my website?​

Web Scanning:

  1. Go to our website and sign in or create an account.
  2. Reload this page, and under advanced options, increase the scan limit.

Plugin Integration:

  1. Sign in and create a new project for your website.
  2. Retrieve your API key from the "General" section of the project settings.
  3. Add the API key to the plugin settings on your website.

Our scanner uses a headless browser to simulate real users browsing your website. It detects all embedded services, cookies, and scripts, providing a detailed report of potential privacy risks.

What should I do with the final report?​

  • Remove unnecessary services or cookies from your website.
  • 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 page to avoid false positives and ensure proper display of the report.

By using our Cookie Scanner, you can uncover privacy risks and take actionable steps to make your website safe, transparent, and GDPR-compliant! Please note that the output of this tool may not be completely accurate. It is intended to assist with analyzing a website's cookie behavior and should not be relied on as the sole source of information. Use it as a starting point for your analysis.