How to check cookies on your website manually

Modified on Wed, 15 Nov 2023 at 04:55 PM

One of the most important aspects to comply with Personal Data Privacy laws and regulations, is to identify and classify the cookies used on your website. Although our platform has an integrated cookie scanner, in this article we will explain how to check this manually. Note that just checking your site's cookies is not enough, you will need to categorize them, to recognize which ones need consent as well as which ones are essential for the operation of your site.

If you want to know more about Cookies and Privacy, check our articles here.



  • Be sure to disable your browser's cookie blocking options, and the "Do Not Track" option. This would prevent all site cookies from loading.



Here we will detail the process of detecting your cookies as much as possible, however, bear in mind that the process might change for different browsers on different versions.



Detect Cookies manually on Google Chrome


  • Right click > Inspect > Application menu > Storage section > Cookies dropdown menu.


Here you will find the URL of your site, clicking on it will display the list of cookies corresponding to the same. clicking

in the domain of each one, you will be able to see the information of each one in detail.




Detect Cookies manually on Mozilla Firefox


  • Right click > Inspect > Storage > Cookies dropdown menu.


Here you will find the URL of your site, the same as in the case of Google Chrome, when you click on it you will see displayed

the list of corresponding cookies, and clicking on each one you will see all your information.




Detect Cookies manually on Safari


  • Right click > Inspect > Storage > Cookies dropdown menu.


Here you will find the URL of your site, the same as in the case of Google Chrome, when you click on it you will see displayed

the list of corresponding cookies, and clicking on each one you will see all your information.







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