cookie audit

How To Do Cookie Audit For A Website

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START BY SHARING YOUR DETAILS BELOW!

1) Select ‘Cookies’ For Extraction

Open screaming frog SEO Spider, go to Configuration  > Spider > Extraction’ and select ‘Cookies’ under ‘URL Details’.

2) Enable JavaScript Rendering

After selecting cookies from URL details, Click ‘Configuration > Spider > Rendering’ and select ‘JavaScript’.

3) Set The User-Agent To Chrome

Then the next step is-

switch the user-agent to a browser, such as Chrome via ‘Config > User-agent’

4) Ignore robots.txt

After this step Click ‘Configuration > robots.txt’ and select ‘Ignore robots.txt’ or ‘Ignore robots.txt but report status’.

5) Crawl the Website

After all these configurations, crawl the website.

6) View Number of Cookies For Each URL

In the ‘Internal’ tab, there’s a ‘cookies’ column which displays the number of cookies discovered for each URL.

7) View The Cookies Tab

Then Click on a URL in the top window, then the lower ‘Cookies’ tab to populate the lower window pane with more details on cookies discovered for each URL.

8) View Aggregated Cookie Summary Report

Export an aggregated summary of cookies discovered by clicking ‘Reports > Cookies > Cookie Summary’.

By exporting this report, all the unique cookies will be shown and all the values of unique cookies will be gotten.

9) Bulk Export All Cookie Details

Click ‘Bulk Export > Web > All Cookies’ to export every URL, cookie and all cookie attributes discovered.

After this export, all the value, data of all cookies will be stored.