What does apa.org track?
Before any consent, apa.org 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.apa.org once and clicking nothing. How we scan
- Tracking companies
- 4
- Tracking cookies
- 5
- Third-party hosts
- 15
- Cookies in total
- 20
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
2 of the 7 companies it contacted before consent were analytics companies.
- Google Ads6 requestsAdvertising
securepubads.g.doubleclick.net, ad.doubleclick.net, stats.g.doubleclick.net, www.google.de
- LinkedIn4 requestsSocial media
snap.licdn.com, px.ads.linkedin.com
- Google Analytics3 requestsAnalytics
www.googletagmanager.com, region1.analytics.google.com
- Siteimprove2 requestsAnalytics
siteimproveanalytics.com, 6045061.global.siteimproveanalytics.io
Other third parties (content delivery, consent, functional, unclassified)
- OneTrust11 requestsConsent banner
cdn.cookielaw.org, geolocation.onetrust.com
- Google4 requestsFunctional
ajax.googleapis.com, www.google.com
- Cloudflare1 requestContent delivery
cdnjs.cloudflare.com
Cookies set before consent
The longest-lived tracking cookie it set was _ga, from Google Analytics, lasting about 13 months.
| Cookie | Purpose | Set by | Lasts |
|---|---|---|---|
| _gcl_au | Advertising | apa.org | 3 months |
| bcookie | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 12 months |
| lidc | Advertising | linkedin.com (third party) | 1 day |
| _ga | Analytics | apa.org | 13 months |
| _ga_SZXLGDJGNB | Analytics | apa.org | 13 months |
| cart_my_apa_org | Unclassified | apa.org | 12 months |
| cId | Unclassified | apa.org | 3 months |
| csId | Unclassified | apa.org | Session |
| TAFSessionId | Unclassified | www.apa.org | Session |
| __cf_bm | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | Under a day |
| ASP.NET_SessionId | Functional | www.apa.org | Session |
| AWSALB | Functional | www.apa.org | 7 days |
| AWSALBCORS | Functional | www.apa.org | 7 days |
| incap_ses_692_2377603 | Functional | apa.org | Session |
| li_gc | Functional | linkedin.com (third party) | 6 months |
| nlbi_2377603 | Functional | apa.org | Session |
| nlbi_2377603_2147483392 | Functional | apa.org | Session |
| OptanonConsent | Functional | apa.org | 12 months |
| visid_incap_2377603 | Functional | apa.org | 12 months |
| reese84 | Necessary | www.apa.org | 30 days |
The page also wrote 2 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.