See exactly which cookies your website is setting
Free Cookie Checker for Websites
The Friendly Captcha Cookie Checker is a free, automated cookie checker that scans your website URL and reveals every cookie, tracker, and third-party script running in the background. It shows website owners, developers, and privacy teams which cookies may collect personal data, how those cookies are categorized, and whether they create GDPR or ePrivacy compliance risk.
Use it to audit first- and third-party cookies, identify hidden trackers, understand consent requirements, and get a detailed report on sources, types, and lifespan without registration or manual review. Run the free website scan in seconds and see whether your site is cookie-compliant with the GDPR.
Check your website for cookies!
The Cookie Checker by Friendly Captcha scans your URL for cookies and trackers – free of charge.
Most websites set more cookies than their owners know
Why Cookie Transparency Matters
Analytics, ad pixels, embedded videos, chat widgets, and plugins quietly store cookies and enable broader data collection on your visitors – often before explicit consent is given. Here’s why you should scan your website today.
Cookies Without Consent Are Fined
Under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive, non-essential cookies require prior consent. Regulators have issued fines reaching millions of euros for cookies set before a user clicks "Accept".
Hidden Third-Party Cookies
Third-party scripts and embedded tools frequently set tracking cookies in the background and without the website owner knows about it. A cookie scan reveals what's really happening.
Your Cookie Banner Must Match Reality
Consent banners and cookie policies are only compliant if they reflect the cookies actually being set. They must also disclose details such as cookie purpose and lifespan to satisfy privacy regulations.
Trust Is a Competitive Advantage
Users increasingly care about how they're tracked. Websites that keep cookies minimal and transparent build lasting user trust. Enterprises protect their brand from reputational damage.
What Does the Cookie Checker Do?
The Cookie Checker tool scans your website to help identify cookies automatically, without any technical knowledge required. Enter your URL, get a detailed cookie audit report showing each cookie’s key details, so you can see exactly where action is needed.
First-party & third-party cookies
Tracking & advertising cookies, including common examples like Google Analytics cookies
Cookie lifespan & expiry
Local storage & session storage
Cookies set before explicit consent
Third-party connections & scripts from other websites
Enter your URL, get a cookie audit score, and see exactly where action is needed.
Free Tool: Cookie Checker
Advantages of the Website Cookie Checker
The free cookie scanner by Friendly Captcha gives you a clear picture of your website’s data privacy instantly. The cookie scanning tool scans the website and crawls its pages. The tool activates all website cookies to identify them.
Cookies can support basic functionality and website content, but they still need to be categorized clearly as necessary, functional, or analytical. Persistent cookies remain on the user’s browser until a certain expiration date. In contrast, session cookies expire when the browser is closed.
Detailed Report
See exactly which cookies are set, what services set them, and what they're used for, including each HTTP cookie's source, purpose, and duration – from harmless preferences to invasive tracking cookies.
Covers All Storage Types
The cookie scanning tool checks cookies, local storage, session storage, and third-party requests in a single scan. You can see functional states within a session – and nothing stays hidden.
Instant Report Results
There's no waiting or requesting the cookie audit report against data. Enter your URL into the Friendly Captcha Cookie Checker to receive a complete and detailed cookie overview in seconds.
No Technical Knowledge
Simply enter your URL, and the free Cookie Checker by Friendly Captcha does the rest. The cookie scanner makes tracking and marketing cookies visible without any setup or configuration.
Act Now for More Online Privacy
GDPR Compliance Is a Legal Requirement
Data protection is not optional. Laws like GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and many others require organizations worldwide to handle personal data responsibly and hold them accountable when they fail to comply.
The Cookie Checker helps you identify where your website may fall short before regulators or users do.
Learn more about privacy-compliant bot protection.
Website Cookie Scan
How Many Cookies Is Your Website Setting?
The Cookie Checker by Friendly Captcha scans your URL for cookies and trackers – free of charge. Find out where your website stands for cookie usage.
Check Your Website For Cookies!
Enter the URL of the website you want to check.
Friendly Captcha Privacy Hub
Insights and Tips on Website Privacy
Hidden trackers, third-party cookies, and non-compliant cookie consent banner practices put website owners at risk. Learn how to keep your website clean and compliant, understand privacy laws and broader data privacy regulations affecting cookies and consent, and manage user consent in a privacy-compliant setup.
FAQ
Cookies are small text files that websites save on your computer or device. An HTTP cookie acts as a website’s memory, helping support how you navigate a site during a visit. They remember your actions, login status, and preferences (like dark mode or shopping cart items) as you browse. Session cookies can also preserve login state or cart contents only for the current session. For example, Google reCAPTCHA uses GRECAPTCHA, NID, 1PJAR, and CONSENT cookies.
Learn more about CAPTCHA cookies in detail.
Cookies track you by assigning your browser a unique ID, a kind of digital fingerprint that logs your activity across the web. Tools such as Google Analytics use these cookies to measure how visitors interact with your pages. While a website can track what you do on its own pages, third-party cookies allow advertising networks such as Google to follow you across entirely unrelated websites.
Checking or auditing cookies on a website is crucial for three main reasons: ensuring data privacy compliance, optimizing website performance, and maintaining strong security. Get your free cookie scan with the Friendly Captcha Cookie Checker.
Cookie scanning is an automated process where a specialized software tool visits a website, simulates user behavior, and detects all the cookies and tracking technologies deployed on that site. Try the Friendly Captcha Cookie Checker now!
To achieve compliant cookie use, you must follow two completely different legal frameworks. The EU’s GDPR relies on an opt-in model (consent before tracking), while California’s CCPA/CPRA relies on an opt-out model (tracking allowed until the user says no). Businesses must obtain user consent where required and manage it according to the applicable framework. Find more information about privacy-compliant CAPTCHA services in our Privacy Compliance Center.
A cookie checker is an automated tool that scans a website and lists every cookie it sets, along with related storage and tracking technologies, helping identify cookies that may collect personal data and support cookie-compliant disclosure. Tools like the Friendly Captcha Cookie Checker load your website’s URL, observe which cookies are placed in the browser, and show you who sets them and how long they last. A cookie check typically covers:
First-party and third-party cookies
Tracking, analytics, and advertising cookies
Cookie lifespan, domain, and purpose
Local storage and session storage
Cookies set before consent is given
The result is a clear cookie overview and a set of recommendations to improve your website’s compliance.
You can inspect cookies manually in your browser’s developer tools, but this only shows the cookies triggered by your own actions and misses many background trackers. The most reliable way is to use an automated scanner such as the Friendly Captcha Cookie Checker, which visits your URL, triggers third-party scripts, and generates a full cookie report within seconds, no technical setup required.
No, cookies themselves are not illegal. However, non-essential cookies (such as tracking, analytics, and advertising cookies) require the user’s prior, informed consent under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive. Essential cookies needed for the website to function are exempt. Problems arise when cookies are set before consent, are undisclosed in the cookie banner, track user behavior, affect the user’s interaction, or transfer personal data without valid consent. The Cookie Checker helps you spot these issues.
First-party cookies are set directly by the website you are visiting – often for essential functions like keeping you logged in or remembering preferences. Third-party cookies are set by external domains (such as ad networks, analytics providers, or embedded widgets) and are commonly used to track users across multiple websites. Third-party cookies carry the highest privacy risk and are the main focus of most regulations.
Yes. The Friendly Captcha Cookie Checker is completely free to use. It is a free website tool for website visitors’ privacy transparency and for website owners reviewing compliance. Simply enter your URL in the search box, click the scan button, and view your full cookie report – no registration or setup required. Our goal is to make privacy transparency accessible to every website owner.
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