Cookie Scanning & Detection
Discover how to scan your website for cookies and understand the results.
Understanding Cookie Scans
Our cookie scanner crawls your website and detects all first-party and third-party cookies, tracking scripts, and local storage items. This comprehensive scan helps you understand your compliance requirements.
Deep Scanning
Scans up to 500+ pages to find all cookies across your site
Automatic Detection
Identifies cookie purpose and duration automatically
Running a Scan
Select Your Website
Click on the website you want to scan from the dashboard to open its detail view.
Website overview page
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Review Current Status
The overview shows your current compliance grade, last scan date, and cookie distribution across categories.
Start New Scan
Click Scan Again to run a fresh scan. You can adjust the number of pages to scan based on your website size.
Understanding Scan Results
Cookie analysis results
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Compliance Grade Explained
Fully Compliant
Minor Issues
Needs Attention
Non-Compliant
Detected Cookies List
After the scan completes, you'll see a detailed list of all detected cookies, including their name, domain, category, and duration.
List of detected cookies
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Unknown Cookies
If some cookies are marked as "Unknown", you can manually categorize them. This is important for accurate consent collection.
Adding & Editing Cookies
You can manually add cookies that weren't detected or edit existing cookie details for accuracy.
Add New Cookie
Add cookie modal
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Edit Cookie
Edit cookie modal
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Best Practices
- Run scans regularly (monthly) to catch new cookies from updated third-party scripts
- Scan more pages for larger websites to ensure comprehensive coverage
- Review and categorize any "Unknown" cookies immediately after scanning
- Set up automatic scheduled scans for hands-off compliance monitoring