Learn about tracking technologies, market structure and data-sharing on the web

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Tracker Market Share

Proportion of the web traffic tracked by these companies.

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Google trackers are present on 76% of the web traffic

That is more than the next 4 biggest trackers combined.

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16% of the web has a hidden Facebook tracking pixel

Facebook knows more than what you just do on Facebook

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417 companies track more than 0.1% of the web traffic each.

Which of these have you heard of?

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Websites with the most (and least) tracking

TRACKER PRESENCE

1574

out of 6000 top websites have more than 10 trackers per page.

11MB

of data per page load on average required by trackers

FINGERPRINTING is a unique digital signature derived from the properties of your device.

COOKIES are files placed by the website, stored in the browser that is used to identify you to the website.

The most common trackers