Cookie compliance monitoring: what loads before consent
Monity visits your site like a first-time visitor, records the cookies and trackers that load before anyone answers the banner, and alerts you when a new tracker shows up or the consent platform goes missing.
- Paid plans and the Business trial
- Cookie names, never values
- A first visit, before consent
A first visit, recorded
What a new visitor’s browser gets before they answer your banner.
A consent setup that worked on Monday can be broken by Tuesday’s tag manager publish: a pixel added outside the consent platform, a tag that fires before the banner, a theme update that drops the banner altogether. Nothing visible changes. Monity visits the page like a first-time visitor on every check and records the cookies set and the trackers contacted before anyone clicks anything.
- Cookies by name, party and vendor; their values are never read or stored
- Analytics, advertising, session-replay, social and marketing vendors
- The consent platform, the IAB consent APIs and Google Consent Mode defaults
Alerts on drift
A new tracker, a new cookie, a banner that’s gone: you hear the same day.
After the first three checks learn which tags normally fire, Monity alerts when the page contacts a tracking vendor or sets a tracking cookie it has not seen in the last 30 days, and when the consent platform changes or disappears. A platform missing on one slow load is not “gone”: it has to be missing on two checks in a row.
- New tracker, new tracking cookie and consent platform changes are on from the start
- Tracking before consent and a tracker count are there to switch on
Honest about what one visit shows
It tells you what loads. Whether it needs consent is your call.
Whether a tracker needs consent depends on where your visitors are and how your platform is set up, so Monity reports what loads, in plain terms, and leaves the legal reading to you and your advisers. For a full consent audit, run the check as a clean visit: with “Block ads and cookie banners” off and no steps before it, so nothing answers the banner on the visitor’s behalf.
- “Tracking before consent” is judged only on clean visits
- Blocked requests are still listed: the page asked for them
Alert rules
Five rules. Three are on from the start.
“New” means not seen on the page in the last 30 days, so tags that come and go with campaigns don’t alert every time they return. These are the defaults a new task starts with.
Cookie & tracker watch
Paid plans| Rule | New tasks | Default | What it catches |
|---|---|---|---|
| New tracker | On | A vendor not seen in 30 days | The page contacts an analytics, advertising, session-replay, social or marketing vendor it has not used in the last 30 days. |
| New tracking cookie | On | A cookie not seen in 30 days | A tracking cookie appears on a first visit. Compared by name; values are never read or stored. |
| Consent platform changed or disappeared | On | Gone on 2 checks in a row | The consent platform changed, appeared or is gone. One slow load does not count as gone. |
| Tracking before consent | Off | Once, while it lasts | A tracker is contacted, or a tracking cookie set, before anyone answers the banner. Judged only on checks that do not block ads or run steps first. |
| More trackers than | Off | 10 vendors | The number of distinct tracking vendors contacted on a first visit. |
Monity does not give legal advice and does not sell a consent platform. It records what a first visit loads and tells you when that changes.
Examples
Ask for it in a sentence. Hear about the tag nobody approved.
Tell the assistant what to watch, or switch the skill on in a task’s settings. Alerts go to the channels you turn on for the task.
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Tell me if a new tracker shows up on northwind.example
New tracker: 1 — TikTok Pixel. Added in the tag manager for a campaign, outside the consent platform.
Slack · #privacy
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Alert me if the cookie banner on coastalcrm.com disappears
Consent platform changed or disappeared: Consent platform "Cookiebot" → (none). A theme update removed the platform’s script tag.
Email · privacy@coastalcrm.com
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Check fieldnote.com/pricing for tracking before consent
Tracking before consent: 2 — Meta Pixel is contacted before consent; Tracking cookie _fbp is set before consent. Judged on a clean visit: no ad blocking, no steps before the check.
Microsoft Teams · Legal · Privacy
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Keep a log of every new cookie on our shop
New tracking cookie: 1 — _ttp. One row per alert, which keeps a dated record for the cookie policy.
Google Sheets · Cookie register
Northwind, Coastal CRM and Fieldnote are example companies.
Free tools
Scan a site now, then watch for drift.
The free scanner shows what one first visit loads. Monitoring repeats that visit on every check and tells you when it changes.
FAQ
Questions about cookie compliance monitoring
What does cookie compliance monitoring check?
Does it tell me whether my site is GDPR compliant?
Does Monity read cookie values?
Why is “Tracking before consent” off by default?
Which consent platforms does it recognise?
Which plans include it?
Know what your site loads before anyone says yes.
Add the Cookie & tracker watch to your key pages and Monity records every first visit, with an alert when a tracker or your consent platform changes.
- 7-day Business trial, no card
- Cookie names, never values
- Every alert channel on every plan