USA.gov (Search.gov)
FunctionalUSA.gov (Search.gov) loaded on 4 sites in our October 2026 scan: 0% of the 2,450 most-visited sites we checked, before any visitor had given consent.
Category: Functional. A company can do several jobs; this is its main role on the pages we saw.
None of the sites where it loaded had a consent banner we could detect.
Often loaded alongside
Sites that load USA.gov (Search.gov) most often also load Google Analytics (100%), Digital Analytics Program (DAP) (75%), and YouTube (50%).
Domains it loads from
- search.usa.gov
Sites that load USA.gov (Search.gov)
The highest-ranked 4 of 4 sites.
Understanding this page
- What the tracker categories mean
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- First-party vs third-party cookies (and why "first-party" still tracks you)
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- How to block or limit trackers
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