What does anu.edu.au track?
Before any consent, anu.edu.au loaded 4 tracking companies and set 5 advertising or analytics cookies.
That's more tracking companies than 70% of the 2,450 sites we scanned.
Scanned October 2, 2026 from Germany, loading www.anu.edu.au once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 17
- Cookies in total
- 14
Consent banner
The page loaded OneTrust, a consent management platform. Everything below was recorded before anyone answered it. 4 tracking companies still loaded while it was unanswered.
Companies contacted before consent
3 of the 9 companies it contacted before consent were content delivery companies.
- Google Ads2 requestsAdvertising
pagead2.googlesyndication.com
- X (Twitter)4 requestsSocial media
platform.twitter.com, static.ads-twitter.com, t.co, analytics.twitter.com
- Meta3 requestsSocial media
connect.facebook.net, www.facebook.com
- Google Analytics4 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.google-analytics.com
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust12 requestsConsent banner
cdn-au.onetrust.com, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google3 requestsFunctional
fonts.googleapis.com, fonts.gstatic.com
- Amazon Web Services43 requestsContent delivery
d1blp3aor2iuhp.cloudfront.net, d1zkbwgd2iyy9p.cloudfront.net
- Cloudflare5 requestsContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
- Google Cloud1 requestContent delivery
m2a0406a0524-is5qnl632q-uc.a.run.app
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was muc_ads, from X (Twitter), lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _fbp | Advertising | anu.edu.au | 3 months |
| muc_ads | Advertising | t.co (third party) | 13 months |
| personalization_id | Advertising | twitter.com (third party) | 13 months |
| _ga | Analytics | anu.edu.au | 13 months |
| _ga_E1GV4NJHV2 | Analytics | anu.edu.au | 13 months |
| _twpid | Unclassified | anu.edu.au | 13 months |
| _twsid | Unclassified | anu.edu.au | 13 months |
| COOKIE-TERRA-WEB | Unclassified | anu.edu.au | Session |
| COOKIE-TERRA-WEB | Unclassified | www.anu.edu.au | Session |
| COOKIE-TERRA-WEB | Unclassified | imagedepot.anu.edu.au | Session |
| COOKIE-TERRA-WEB | Unclassified | webstyle.anu.edu.au | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | t.co (third party) | Under a day |
| __cf_bm | Functional | twitter.com (third party) | Under a day |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | anu.edu.au | 12 months |
The page also wrote 3 keys to local storage, which works like a cookie but isn't sent with requests.
Understanding this page
- How to see which cookies and trackers a website loads
A hands-on walkthrough for checking what a site sets before you've clicked anything, using Chrome and Firefox's built-in tools, plus how CookieTosser automates the same check every month.
- What counts as valid cookie consent in the EU
The rules that actually govern cookie banners — the ePrivacy Directive, the GDPR consent standard, the Planet49 ruling, the strictly-necessary exemption, and what "reject" has to offer compared with "accept.
- Consent management platforms explained
What a CMP banner is actually doing behind the scenes, how the IAB's TCF standard and Google's Consent Mode v2 fit in, and why a banner being present is no guarantee that nothing loads before you answer it.