How To Perform A Cookie Audit

How To Perform A Cookie Audit
Cookie Audit Introduction
It’s essential today to understand the presence and purpose of cookies on a website. The data privacy landscape is continuing to evolve and there are various laws and regulations in place throughout the world, where cookie compliance is almost always included in some way.

If you’re tasked with performing a review of existing cookies on a website for compliance (ePrivacy, GDPR), privacy or cookie policy the Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool can help automate the heavy lifting in identifying all cookies that are being automatically set without explicit user consent at scale.

This tutorial guides you through how to configure the Screaming Frog SEO Spider to crawl a website, load each page in its headless Chrome browser, and identify any cookies that are found and report them back to you.

The SEO Spider is free in lite form, but the features discussed below do require a licence. When you have the SEO Spider installed, licenced and open, please follow these steps.

1) Select ‘Cookies’ For Extraction
Open up the SEO Spider, go to ‘Config > Spider > Extraction’ and select ‘Cookies’ under ‘URL Details’.