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Cookie and privacy scanner Beta

See which trackers load before visitors agree, and how to fix it

Find trackers that load before visitors agree, check your cookie banner, policies and forms, and get a cookie list. A guide for Ireland, the UK and the EU.

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The Cookie and privacy scanner screen in SEOmise, with sample data: Trackers, the consent tool and what to fix, most important first

A screen from the SEOmise demo, with sample data.

Why it matters

From the problem to what SEOmise does

The problem

Trackers load before anyone agrees

Statistics tools, ad pixels and embedded videos often start before a visitor says yes. A new plugin or tag can add one without anyone noticing, and it is hard to tell from the outside.

What Cookie and privacy scanner does

See which trackers load before visitors agree, and how to fix it

  • Trackers before consent. Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, X, Snap, Microsoft Advertising, Hotjar, Clarity, HubSpot, Matomo and more, each marked by whether it waits for consent.
  • Your consent tool. Finds well-known consent tools such as Cookiebot, OneTrust, CookieYes and Complianz, and checks Google Consent Mode, including whether it starts as "denied".
  • Cookies set straight away. The cookies your site sets on a first visit, before anyone agrees, including ones we do not recognise.

How it works

Four steps, start to finish

  1. We read your pagesThe home page and up to three more (privacy notice, cookie policy and contact page), the way a first-time visitor's browser asks for them, before any consent.
  2. We match what we findKnown trackers and embeds, consent tools, Google Consent Mode, the cookies your site sets, policy links and forms.
  3. You get plain fixesEach finding says why it matters and what to do, with the most important first.
  4. Checked again every monthA monthly re-scan, and an e-mail when a new tracker appears.

Features

What you get with Cookie and privacy scanner

Trackers before consent

Google Analytics, Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Pinterest, X, Snap, Microsoft Advertising, Hotjar, Clarity, HubSpot, Matomo and more, each marked by whether it waits for consent.

Your consent tool

Finds well-known consent tools such as Cookiebot, OneTrust, CookieYes and Complianz, and checks Google Consent Mode, including whether it starts as "denied".

Cookies set straight away

The cookies your site sets on a first visit, before anyone agrees, including ones we do not recognise.

Privacy and cookie policies

Whether there is a link to your privacy notice and cookie policy, whether the pages open, and whether cookies are covered.

Forms

Forms that send personal details without encryption, marketing tick boxes that are already ticked, and forms with no privacy link beside them.

Embeds and fonts

YouTube and Vimeo videos, Google Maps and reCAPTCHA, and fonts loaded from Google's servers.

A cookie list for your policy

Copy it as a table or download it as a spreadsheet (CSV). Each cookie is marked as seen on your site or expected from a tracker.

New tracker alerts

When a scan finds a tracker the last scan did not have, your workspace owners and admins get an e-mail.

Scan history

Your last 24 scans per project, so you can see what changed and when.

What it needs

No surprises after you sign up

Turn a card over for the detail.

Your website's address

Your website's address

The scan reads your public pages from outside. Nothing is installed on the site.

Someone to make the fixes

Someone to make the fixes

Changes are made in your consent tool, your website builder or your site's code. Scan again afterwards to check them.

Every platform

Whatever your site runs on

What Cookie and privacy scanner does on each kind of website, from SEOmise's site connectors to step-by-step guidance.

WordPress

WordPress and WooCommerce
Fully supported

Works on any website: the scan reads your public pages from outside.

Laravel

Sites built on Laravel
Fully supported

Works on any website: the scan reads your public pages from outside.

Any PHP site

Custom PHP, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Drupal, Joomla
Fully supported

Works on any website: the scan reads your public pages from outside.

Every other platform

Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, static sites and the rest
Step by step

You make the fixes in your consent tool or website settings, on any platform, then scan again to check the result.

About the site connectors

Cookie and privacy scanner is in beta

It is not on sale yet, so there are no prices for it. Leave your name and e-mail address and we will tell you as soon as you can use it.

Questions about it?

Ask Mise, our assistant, in the help centre, or book a call and we will tell you where Cookie and privacy scanner stands and what you can use today.

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Questions

Cookie and privacy scanner: common questions

Is this legal advice?

No. It is a practical guide, written for the GDPR and the ePrivacy rules as they apply in Ireland, the UK and the EU. Whether you need consent can depend on how a tool is set up and why you use it.

Why are some findings marked "check"?

There is no browser on the server, so scripts are read, not run. Tags added later by JavaScript, including those inside Google Tag Manager, do not show, and a consent tool that blocks tags in the browser can make a tag look unblocked. Those cases are marked "check" for you to test.

Does it scan my whole website?

No. It reads the home page and up to three more: the privacy notice, the cookie policy and the contact page.

Can I paste the cookie list straight into my policy?

It is a strong start, but it is an estimate: cookies we saw on your site plus the ones the trackers we found usually set. Check it with whoever runs your site before you publish it.

How often does it scan?

Whenever you press Scan again, and once a month on its own unless you switch that off. When a scan finds a new tracker, your workspace owners and admins get an e-mail, unless you switch that off too.

Can I use Cookie and privacy scanner now?

Cookie and privacy scanner is in beta: it is not on sale yet. Use Ask for early access and we will e-mail you as soon as it is ready for you. Other modules and the plans are on the pricing page.

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