How to use GDPR cookie scanner?

Last updated on June 1, 2021

GDPR Cookie Consent now uses CookieYes to bring you enhanced scanning for cookies on your website!

Our cookie scanning solution lets you:

Discover first-party and third-party cookies used on your website.
Identify what personal data they collect and what are the other purposes they serve.
Determine whether you need to comply with the data protection laws governing cookies. Eg:- EU’s GDPR, ePrivacy Directive (EU Cookie Law), California’s CCPA, etc.

Pre-requisites: WordPress version 4.4 and above.

How does it work?

Navigate through GDPR Cookie Consent > Cookie Scanner

Note: Here, you can scan your website with CookieYes, our scanning solution for high-speed, accurate cookie scanning.

Click “Connect & scan” to connect with CookieYes and initiate your scan right away.
On clicking “Connect & scan”, the following window will appear.

Type your email address and click on “Connect”.
Note: If you are an existing user of CookieYes, you can straight away enter your email ID and password to get started with the scanner.
You will receive an email verification to get started.

A dialog box as shown below appears on successful verification.

The cookie scan will be initiated, which may take a few moments to get completed.

Scan completion will be notified via email.
Also, you can see a detailed cookie scan report in the plugin dashboard.
Click on view result to view detailed scan history.

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From the scan result, you can:
- Add cookies to the cookie list
- Time and date of scan
- Total URL’s scanned
- Total cookies detected by the scan
- Detected cookie names, duration, category, and description.
- Scan again option

Import options

The scanned cookies can be replaced, merged, or even appended with the existing cookie list.

Click on Start import to add cookies to the existing list. Go to GDPR Cookie consent > Cookie List, to view all the cookies of your site.

If you are facing any issues while scanning for cookies, please reach out to our support team.

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Cookie	Description
PHPSESSID	This cookie is native to PHP applications. The cookie is used to store and identify a users' unique session ID for the purpose of managing user sessions on the website. The cookie is a session cookie and is deleted when all the browser windows are closed.
viewed_cookie_policy	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not a user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

Cookie	Description
_ga	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gat_gtag	Identification code of website for tracking visits.
_gid	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information on how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.
_hjid	Hotjar cookie. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID.
_hjIncludedInSample	This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate heatmaps, funnels, recordings, etc.
has_recent_activity	This cookie is used to signal to the code repository website if the user has browsed other website resources during the current session.
tk_ai	Gathers information for our own first-party analytics tool about how our services are used. A collection of internal metrics for user activity and is used to improve user experience.
tk_lr	This cookie is set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analyzing referrer behavior for Jetpack.
tk_or	This cookie is set by the JetPack plugin on sites using WooCommerce. This is a referral cookie used for analyzing referrer behavior for Jetpack.
tk_qs	Gathers information for our own first-party analytics tool about how our services are used. A collection of internal metrics for user activity and is used to improve user experience.
tk_r3d	The cookie is installed by JetPack. Used for the internal metrics for user activities to improve user experience.

Cookie	Description
_fbp	This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisements when they are on Facebook or on a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website.
fr	The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisements to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook Pixel or Facebook social plugin.