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Changes to analytics cookie behavior on webflow.io sites

To improve the security and discoverability of websites published to our webflow.io domain, we’re adding that domain to the Public Suffix List.

Changes to analytics cookie behavior on webflow.io sites

<p id="">To improve the security and discoverability of websites published to our webflow.io domain, we’re adding that domain to the <a href="<https://publicsuffix.org/>" id="">Public Suffix List</a>, which will result in some changes to analytics cookie behavior for sites with URLs ending with webflow.io.</p><ul id=""><li><strong id="">Who’s affected? </strong>Websites that are ONLY published to webflow.io will see their analytics cookies reset. Websites with cookies set on custom domains will <em id="">not </em>see any changes to their cookies. (This change should only affect free sites and testing/staging URLs).</li><li><strong id="">What’s changing? </strong>Cookies for analytics tools like Google Analytics and Facebook pixel (even if you set them in the dashboard) will reset, meaning existing visitors that return to your site will not be recognized as returning visitors on their first visit after this is live.</li><li><strong id="">When will this happen?</strong> Different browsers will put this change into effect at different times, but this change may roll out as early as June.</li><li><strong id="">What can I do to preserve my cookies?</strong> If you want to preserve existing cookies on your webflow.io domain, you can add <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/webflow-staging-subdomain#how-staging-subdomain-cookies-work>" id="">this script</a> to your site.</li></ul><p id="">For more details on this update, check out our <a href="<https://university.webflow.com/lesson/webflow-staging-subdomain#how-staging-subdomain-cookies-work>" id="">article on Webflow University</a>.</p>


Launched on
April 21, 2023
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Hosting

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