After every scan, Kukie.io presents a detailed breakdown of every cookie and tracker found on your website. This guide explains how to navigate the results, understand the auto-categorisation summary, and handle uncategorised cookies.
The Cookies & Scripts Page
Navigate to your site in the dashboard and click Cookies & Scripts in the sub-navigation. The page is organised into three tabs:
- Categories & Cookies - your cookie inventory grouped by category (Necessary, Analytics, Marketing, Functional, and any custom categories). Each category is expandable and shows the cookies assigned to it.
- Scan Results - the latest scan summary including new, updated, removed, and uncategorised cookies.
- Scan History - a chronological list of all past scans with status, page count, cookie count, and the option to view details.
Reviewing Discovered Cookies
In the Categories & Cookies tab, each cookie entry shows:
- Cookie name - the key used to identify the cookie in the browser.
- Domain - the domain that set the cookie. First-party cookies match your site domain; third-party cookies come from external services.
- Category - the currently assigned category (Necessary, Analytics, Marketing, Functional, or a custom one).
- Source - how the cookie was categorised: automatically by the scanner, manually by you, or matched from the known cookie database.
Click on any cookie to expand its details, including the description (if available from the known cookie database), the pages where it was detected, and its expiry duration.
Auto-Categorisation Results
After every scan, the auto-categorisation engine processes all discovered cookies and produces a summary with four counts:
- New - cookies found for the first time that were automatically assigned a category.
- Updated - cookies whose properties changed since the last scan (new pages, different expiry, etc.).
- Removed - cookies that were present in the previous scan but were not found this time. These are not deleted from your inventory but are flagged as inactive.
- Uncategorised - cookies that the engine could not confidently classify. These require your attention.
Tip: The auto-categorisation engine uses a four-stage pipeline: exact name matching against a database of known cookies, regular expression patterns for common naming conventions, domain-to-category mappings for popular services, and heuristic analysis as a fallback.
Handling Uncategorised Cookies
When the scanner finds cookies it cannot automatically classify, a notification appears at the top of the dashboard listing the uncategorised cookie names. You have two options for resolving them:
Quick-Categorise Buttons
The notification shows each uncategorised cookie name alongside category buttons (Necessary, Analytics, Marketing, Functional). Click a button to instantly assign the cookie to that category. This is the fastest way to handle a small number of uncategorised cookies.
Bulk Categorise
For larger numbers of uncategorised cookies, use the bulk categorise feature:
- Go to the Categories & Cookies tab.
- Select the checkboxes next to the cookies you want to move.
- Choose the target category from the bulk action dropdown.
- Click Move to Category.
All selected cookies are moved in a single operation and marked as manually categorised. Future scans will not override your manual assignments.
Manual vs Automatic Categorisation
Cookies that you categorise manually are flagged with is_manually_categorized. The auto-categorisation engine respects this flag and will never reassign a manually categorised cookie, even if its heuristics suggest a different category. This gives you full control over cookies where you know the correct classification better than the algorithm.
To return a cookie to automatic management, delete it from the cookie list. The next scan will rediscover it and the engine will classify it afresh.
Known Cookie Database
Kukie.io maintains a database of over 200 known cookies from popular services (Google Analytics, Facebook, Hotjar, Stripe, Cloudflare, and many more). When the scanner finds a cookie that matches a known entry, the cookie is automatically assigned the correct category and enriched with a human-readable description.
The known cookie database is updated periodically. You can check the last sync time in the Filament admin panel under the Known Cookies section.
Scan History
The Scan History tab lists every scan performed on your site, including:
- Date and time - when the scan was triggered.
- Type - manual or scheduled.
- Status - Completed, Completed with errors, or Failed.
- Pages scanned - how many pages were processed out of the total discovered.
- Cookies found - the total number of cookies detected.
- New cookies - cookies discovered for the first time in this scan.
Scans with uncategorised cookies show an amber badge with the count, prompting you to review and categorise them.
Important: Review your scan results after every scan, especially when you add new third-party services or change your site's analytics setup. Keeping your cookie inventory accurate ensures your consent banner reflects what your site actually does.